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.

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

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

accident, and out of

praised Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness

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

jumping off the building was etched into Quintessa’s memory, fueling a hatred that never subsided, burning inside her and threatening to consume her whole.

into the Young

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were severed from her life.

Quintessa’s eyes sent a chill down Sean’s spine, and he abruptly realized that the daughter he

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

“You want revenge