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?

driven their family into ruin, leaving her battered, broken, utterly

breath as her nails raked across his

the fury of a cornered lioness-her

his face, blood trickling slowly

lost your mind?!"

You made sure of that, you monster! You destroyed my family-how

expected Adah to uncover the truth about what happened all those years

of wounded confusion. "I

stoked Adah's fury, sending

hand straight at Nathan's face. "Here's your proof! What more do you want

secrets he had buried for decades, the sins he thought lost to darkness, now

went white as a sheet, completely drained of color. He

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

heart, as if invisible hands were tearing her apart from the inside out. She could barely breathe for the

together inside her, fueling a storm that swept away