Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 126

Vincent sighed and walked over. "Claire, after everything that's happened, you should know better by now. Apologize to Irene and Vanessa, and let's put this behind us."

Claire stared coldly at her older brother and childhood friend. They were the last people she wanted to deal with right now.

A CEO and a lawyer-both highly educated and supposedly sophisticated-yet when it came to Vanessa, they transformed into mindless fools. It was infuriating.

"You claim to be fair, but you're just protecting Vanessa, aren't you? Afraid I'll expose her hypocrisy in public?" Claire challenged.

"Claire!" Ethan raised his voice in reprimand. "Don't push your luck."

But Claire's voice rose even higher, "Ethan, shut up!"

Vincent's expression soured, and he opened his mouth to speak, but Claire rounded on him fiercely, "You shut up too."

"You have no right to lecture me, and even less right to control what I do."

you

they were losing face. They knew all

firmly pushed

pale face turned ghostly white, and she began to tremble uncontrollably. Her eyes were filled with a tangible mix

of insight could see that Irene wanted nothing to do with

with his sister's reaction. "Irene, what's wrong?" he

making baseless accusations," Ethan reprimanded her again. "You'll see soon

know you can't speak right now, and I don't need you to. Just blink once if I'm right and

Irene blinked once, forcefully.

Claire's lips—a release

today is your

pounded in

struggle. "Sister, I don't feel well. I need

Claire ignored her completely.

seeing Vanessa's struggle, helped