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

assuming the doctor was

the head nurse, Sophia, over his phone, a sly

at the contemptible man, fury boiling inside him. He approached Nathan without

sock, but Liam's iron grip held him fast. With a sickening

Nathan lose consciousness,

was relentless, pummeling Nathan's face with brutal

leg snapped again under the assault, the

pain knocked him out cold, his

Liam felt a surge of relief, his mind clearer than it

deeply and turned to find Victor standing at the door, shock

are cameras in the room," Victor

in his gaze. "So, Dr. Lewis, what's your

need

real one. Drinks are on me tonight." As night fell, Cresthaven

and Victor drank themselves

with the Linwoods,

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

how long they drank? Liam

and was passed

unaware that Mandy had been watching them from a dark