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.

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

married her mother, and she was barely pregnant, Sean had already set his sights on a more affluent match, driving Quintessa’s

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

died in an accident, and out of pity for the child, Mrs. Lilian Young graciously allowed her

Mrs. Lilian Young for her

she got what she deserved, punished by God for

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.

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

the Young

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were severed from her life.

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

wide open, waiting for the moment to devour the entire Young family, even

quivered, “You want revenge