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

breath as

with the fury of a cornered lioness-her strength was wild, relentless, impossible to

bloomed on his face, blood trickling slowly

Linwood, have you lost

hatred. "Yes, I have! You made sure of that, you monster! You destroyed

moment, something flickered in Nathan's eyes. He hadn't expected Adah to uncover

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

feigned innocence only stoked Adah's fury, sending a

What more do you want me to say?" she choked out, tears brimming in her eyes, rage and grief swirling in their

as he caught sight of the papers—the secrets he had buried for decades, the sins he thought lost to darkness, now laid bare before him,

white as a sheet, completely drained of color. He stood frozen, staring blankly at the

mask of innocence crack, Adah felt the last fragile thread of hope inside her snap. The man she

needles pierced her heart, as if invisible hands were tearing her apart from the

a storm that swept away