Enchanted Nightfall: Falling for Destiny

Chapter 5

Sean’s forehead veins were throbbing with rage as he spat out, “Quintessa, you little bastard.”

Quintessa mocked him with a sneer, “Yeah, I’m the bastard. The one you brought into this world. If you had just been shooting blanks, we wouldn’t be having these troubles now, would we?”

Sean was so exasperated pain gripped his lungs, “I should have strangled you when I had the chance.”

Leaning against the table, Quintessa laughed, “Yeah, you should have, just like you drove my mom to her grave.”

Everyone in town gossiped about how Quintessa’s mother was the homewrecker, but little did they know, it was actually Mrs. Young, the current wife, who was the real mistress.

the second eldest daughter, but who would

already set his sights on a more affluent match, driving

Young – Lilian Young – to falsify Quintessa’s age by a

a tale that Quintessa’s mother, the supposed mistress, had died in an accident, and out of pity for the

praised Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness and her magnanimity towards

They said she got what she deserved, punished by God for wrecking a home.

to the Youngs‘ belief that she was beneath their concern. When they were upset or in need of amusement, tormenting her seemed to

mother’s jumping off the building was etched into Quintessa’s memory, fueling a hatred that never subsided, burning inside her and

into the Young family, and that was the day

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and happiness were severed from her life.

eyes sent a chill down Sean’s spine, and he abruptly realized that the daughter he had neglected for years had, unbeknownst to him, morphed Into

was ensnared in darkness, her jaws wide open, waiting for the moment to devour the entire Young family, even

“You want revenge for