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?

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

in a sharp breath as her

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

welts bloomed on his face, blood trickling slowly down

Linwood, have you lost your mind?!"

and hatred. "Yes, I have! You made sure of that, you monster! You destroyed my family-how dare you ask if I've

in Nathan's eyes. He hadn't expected Adah to uncover the truth about

of wounded confusion. "I don't know what you're talking about. You're not making any

fury, sending a violent tremor

Nathan's face. "Here's your proof! What more do you

of the papers—the secrets he had buried for decades, the sins he thought lost to darkness,

went white as a sheet, completely drained of

felt the last fragile thread of hope inside her snap. The man she

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

emotion twisted together inside her, fueling a storm that swept