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

set his sights on a more affluent

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

mother, the supposed mistress, had died in an accident, and out of pity for the child, Mrs.

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

what she deserved, punished

beneath their concern. When they were upset or in need of

Quintessa’s memory, fueling a hatred that

the age of eight, Quintessa was brought into the

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and happiness were severed from her life.

realized that the daughter he had neglected for years

to devour the entire Young family, even if

revenge for

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