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.

always referred to her as the second eldest daughter, but who would guess that Quintessa was actually a year older than

she was barely pregnant, Sean had already set

the scandal, he conspired with the now Mrs. Young – Lilian Young – to falsify Quintessa’s age by a year, claiming that Quintessa’s

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

Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness and her magnanimity towards

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

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, Quintessa’s existence in

of her mother’s jumping off the building was etched into Quintessa’s memory, fueling

eight, Quintessa was brought into the Young family, and that was the

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happiness were severed from her

and he abruptly realized that the daughter he

ensnared in darkness, her jaws wide open, waiting for the moment to

quivered, “You want revenge for your