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 sister?

set his sights on a more affluent match, driving Quintessa’s mother to despair.

cover up the scandal, he conspired with the now Mrs. Young – Lilian Young – to falsify Quintessa’s age

Quintessa’s mother, the supposed mistress, had died in an accident, and out of pity for the child, Mrs. Lilian Young graciously allowed her

Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness and her magnanimity towards her husband’s illegitimate daughter.

said she got what she deserved, punished by God for wrecking

family never saw 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. When they were upset or in

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

into the Young family,

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severed

Sean’s spine, and he abruptly realized

in darkness, her jaws wide open, waiting for the moment to devour the entire Young family, even if it meant her own destruction.

quivered, “You want revenge