Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 243

The atmosphere was suffocating, almost as if the air itself had been sucked out of the room.

Claire's laughter, raw and desperate, was a sound torn from the depths of her soul. Each note carried the weight of her anguish and sorrow, resonating with a profound sense of heartbreak.

Standing silently beside her, Sean's usually sharp and insightful eyes were now clouded with a mix of emotions. He opened his mouth, struggling to find words of comfort, but his throat felt dry, and any attempt at consolation seemed futile against the harsh reality before them.

Jeffry, too, couldn't bear to watch any longer and averted his gaze.

Gradually, Claire's laughter faded into a long, weary sigh, as if she was trying to release all the grievances, pain, and resentment she'd held for over two decades.

"Adah, didn't you always say I was a harbinger of misfortune?" Claire murmured to herself. "But it seems like the true misfortune was your beloved husband."

wondered how Adah would feel when she found out about the daughter her beloved husband had abandoned, the kidney he had arranged to be removed and transplanted into his mistress, and that the cherished daughter she had raised was, in truth,

Adah's face when the truth finally came to light. A strange sense of

returning to the stack of papers in her hands, which felt as heavy as

was built through Nathan's extraordinary talent and relentless effort. She never imagined that

infidelity was a recent development, driven by his affair with the mistress and their illegitimate daughter, Vanessa. But the documents revealed the stark truth: Nathan had always been a calculating

with love and admiration from the start. Nathan, on the other hand, had clawed his way out of poverty, his mother disappearing

the heiress who could change his destiny. Their meeting, their romance, and their love were all

business world, and his perceptive eyes quickly saw through Nathan's façade. He refused to let his daughter marry such a man. However, blinded by love, Adah's judgment faltered.

that Nathan would join the Jones family. Nathan outwardly accepted, but inside, he felt humiliated, burying his resentment

powerless to change it, resorting to subtle manipulations to drive a wedge between Adah and her father. Adah, seeing her father repeatedly belittle Nathan, only grew more

but inside, he resented every member of the Jones family. To him, they all looked