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?

family into ruin, leaving her battered, broken, utterly alone. How

sucked in a sharp breath as her

but Adah fought with the fury of a cornered lioness-her

bloomed on his face, blood trickling slowly

Linwood, have you lost your mind?!" Nathan shouted, voice

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

Nathan's eyes. He hadn't expected Adah to uncover the truth about what happened all those

a look of wounded confusion. "I

only stoked Adah's fury, sending

the stack of documents in her hand straight at Nathan's face. "Here's your proof! What more do you

for decades, the sins he thought lost to darkness, now laid bare before him, writhing like venomous snakes with nowhere

drained of color.

innocence crack, Adah felt the last fragile thread of hope inside her snap. The man she had loved for thirty years was

invisible hands were tearing

together inside her, fueling a storm that swept away the last