Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 234

Mandy twirled the butterfly knife in her hand, her voice casual yet dripping with menace, "Wrong? Just saying you're wrong and thinking that's the end of it? Do you think I'm that easy to dismiss?"

"Do you remember what I told you over two months ago?"

"You can bully me, but I can take your lives. One life for three lives, a bargain. Want to test it?"

Recalling her words, and the icy coldness of the knife pressed against their backs, the three girls were reduced to tears.

Under Mandy's coercion, they were like lambs led to slaughter, forced to brush their teeth, wash their hair, and bathe using her toiletries before drying off with a towel that was filthy and reeking.

Mandy watched with a smile that held not a hint of warmth. "That's more like it."

Do you know why a snake has fangs? Because some things, you can't simply hide from.

Mandy chuckled coldly to herself, plotting her next move: she needed to find that man with the Maybach at Starlight Bar tonight.

Money, what a wonderful thing.

Too bad she didn't have any. So she'd have to get it from those sleazy men.

And she felt not a shred of guilt about it.

Sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting patterns on the corridor of Cresthaven General Hospital.

into a crisp white coat, and masked his face, leaving only a pair of piercing eyes visible as he

hospital bed, assuming the doctor was there for

Sophia, over his phone, a

contemptible man, fury boiling inside him. He approached Nathan without hesitation and

hands instinctively reaching to remove the sock, but Liam's iron grip held him fast.

Nathan lose

was relentless, pummeling Nathan's face with

snapped again under the assault, the sound

him out cold, his body

relief, his mind

find Victor standing at the door,

reckless; there are

raised an eyebrow, a hint of defiance in his gaze. "So,

Nathan. "You need to leave. I'll take care of

on me tonight." As night fell, Cresthaven buzzed with life under

drank themselves into oblivion at the

his frustrations with the Linwoods, unable

past cruelty to Claire, each memory of his harsh words and actions leaving him feeling like a fool. His guilt

knows how long they drank? Liam was intoxicated but

a poor tolerance and was passed out

been watching them from a dark