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

set his sights

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

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

for her kindness and her magnanimity

got what she

the Youngs‘ belief that she was beneath their concern. When they were upset or in need

fueling a hatred that never subsided, burning inside her and

age of eight, Quintessa was brought into the Young family,

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were severed from her life.

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

the moment to devour the entire Young family, even

revenge for