Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 247

"No... This can't be true. Nathan would never do this to me... He loves me, how could he do such a thing?"

Adah's voice trembled, her hands shaking uncontrollably as the documents slipped from her fingers like hot coals.

Her inner defenses were crumbling, yet she still refused to believe it.

How could it be possible?

Once, she was certain her family was happy and complete. Her husband loved her deeply, and her son and daughter were her hopes for the future.

But now, it seemed all of that was a lie, a deceit meticulously woven by Nathan.

The truth hit her like a ton of bricks.

There were simply too many coincidences. When one follows another, it's a clear sign these events were orchestrated.

Claire went missing the day she was born.

building and

of Jones Industries, rebranding it as Linwood Enterprises. The shift in power happened overnight, while she

even changed Ethan

was brought into the Linwood family by

that time, Adah was consumed with guilt over her lost daughter, pouring

insisted on doing everything herself from feeding and changing diapers to teaching her first words and witnessing her first

decisions, while

doubts occasionally flickered in her mind, in the desolation of losing her father and daughter, she found herself alone in the vast Jones family. She clung to Nathan like a lifeline, deluding herself into

was far more brutal than she

bribed the doctor to

she had loved Vanessa unconditionally, even going so far as to let her biological daughter, Claire, take the blame for

as her own was actually Nathan's illegitimate daughter

her like a hammer to the

as

mind involuntarily conjured images of the hardships Claire had endured over