Chapter 298

Atonement?

She scoffed. She didn't need any of it.

All of this-apologies, promises, pleas-were nothing more than desperate attempts for comfort, a way for them to cling to some shred of hope after losing everything, after finally facing the consequences of their actions.

If Nathan had any better option left, he would never have come crawling to her.

All the suffering she'd endured in the first half of her life had been a gift from the man standing before her.

Why should she forgive the person who had hurt her the most?

Not only did she refuse to forgive him, but she also believed Nathan's punishment was far from enough.

Her hatred ran deep-for Nathan, for Ethan, for Vanessa, for Adah, for Sophia, for Garnett Brown, and for Vincent and Brian.

Every single one of them had chosen to hurt her, all for Vanessa's sake. They were her executioners, one and all.

As for Jarrod and Karin, she couldn't quite say she hated them, but there was no affection in her heart, either. Their cruelty hadn't been for Vanessa-it had been for Irene, for vengeance.

Claire's gaze swept slowly, deliberately, across each face in the room.

could meet her eyes. Shame weighed

one.

may have betrayed me,

widened with

What did she mean?

to send him back to that remote

couldn't

he'd left so clearly, leaving that wretched place with pride, convinced he'd never return. Now, he was nothing but a beaten-down stray. If he went back now, he'd

whimpered, his voice cracking. "Claire, don't

lips curled into a cold, silent

Father?

he abandoned her, she stopped

were icy. "You and Vanessa are so close-I wouldn't dream of separating you. You

her whole

and seen the endless, rolling hills from above—a wilderness

get out. Worse, she might

don't make me go," Vanessa sobbed, tears starting to stream down her face.

landed on Adah. "Mrs. Linwood," she said coolly, "your husband cheated, your son's in prison, and the shock has

if lightning had struck her.

have been shaken, but she wasn't insane. She'd never imagined

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