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.

but who would guess that Quintessa was actually

mother, and she was barely pregnant, Sean had already set his sights on a more affluent match,

with the now Mrs. Young – Lilian Young – to falsify Quintessa’s age by

accident, and out of pity for the child, Mrs.

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

They said she got what she

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

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

eight, Quintessa was brought into the

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severed

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

the moment to devour the entire Young family, even if it meant her

revenge