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.

eldest daughter, but who would guess that Quintessa was actually a year older than her sister?

Sean married her mother, and she was barely pregnant, Sean had already set his sights

with the now Mrs. Young – Lilian Young – to falsify Quintessa’s age by a year, claiming that Quintessa’s mother seduced Sean while Lilian was pregnant

the supposed mistress, had died in an accident, and out of pity for

Emberbrook’s elite circles praised Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness and her

mother? They said she got what she deserved, punished by God

family never saw Quintessa as one of their own? That she survived to this age was due not only to luck but to the Youngs‘ belief that she was beneath their concern. When they were upset or in need of amusement, tormenting her seemed to lighten their spirits. For years,

etched into Quintessa’s memory, fueling a hatred that never subsided, burning inside her and threatening to consume

age of eight, Quintessa was brought into the Young

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severed from

realized that the daughter he

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

quivered, “You want revenge for