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.

second eldest daughter, but who would guess that Quintessa was actually a year older

already set his sights on

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

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

Mrs. Lilian Young for her kindness and her

got what she

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 need of amusement, tormenting her seemed to

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

eight, Quintessa was brought into the Young family, and that

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happiness were severed from her

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 if it meant her own

quivered, “You want revenge for your mom?”