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?

her battered, broken, utterly alone. How could he be so

in a sharp breath as her nails

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

on his face, blood trickling slowly

you lost

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

He hadn't expected Adah to uncover the truth about what happened all those

masking his shock with a look of wounded confusion. "I don't

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

What more do you want me to say?"

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, writhing like venomous snakes with nowhere to

a sheet, completely drained of color. He

of hope inside her snap. The man she had loved for thirty years was nothing

as if a thousand needles pierced her heart, as if invisible hands were tearing her

a storm that swept