Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 251

The hospital room was awash in a cold, unforgiving light.

Adah's hair was wild, her whole presence teetering on the edge of madness.

Bloodshot eyes blazing, she hurled herself at Nathan Linwood, hands clawing for his face like sharpened talons. She cursed him in a broken, guttural voice: "Nathan, you heartless bastard! I swear, I'll destroy you today!"

Her words rasped with desperation, every syllable laced with anguish.

She had already lost everything. The happiness she once cherished had shattered like glass-gone in an instant, leaving nothing but emptiness.

Thirty years. For thirty years, her love had flowed, gentle and constant as a spring stream. Not once had she wavered.

Even when he'd "accidentally" lost their daughter all those years ago, she had never blamed him. Night after night, she wept in the darkness alone, burying her pain deep inside, never breathing a word of reproach.

But what had he done in return?

ruin, leaving her battered, broken, utterly

as her nails raked across

wrists, but Adah fought with the fury of a cornered lioness-her strength was

on his face, blood trickling slowly

lost your mind?!" Nathan shouted,

despair and hatred. "Yes, I have! You made sure of that,

expected Adah to uncover the truth about what happened all

he quickly composed himself, masking his shock with a look of wounded confusion. "I don't know what you're talking about. You're not making any

only stoked Adah's fury, sending a violent tremor through her whole

your proof! What more do you want me to say?" she choked out, tears brimming in her eyes,

sins he thought lost to darkness, now laid bare before him, writhing like venomous snakes

as a sheet, completely drained of color. He stood frozen,

last fragile thread of hope inside her snap. The man she had loved for thirty years

as if a thousand needles pierced her heart, as if invisible hands were tearing her apart from the inside out. She could

together inside her, fueling a storm that swept