Chapter 299

Adah shook her head desperately, tears streaming down her face.

"I can't. Please, I don't want to go to a place like that."

"Claire, I'm begging you," she sobbed, her voice breaking. "Just forgive me, just this once-please! If you forgive me, I'll do anything you say. Anything!"

Claire stood there, cold and unmoved, staring at Adah's pitiful pleading. Her lips were pressed together in a hard line, her silence more cutting than words.

The more Claire's expression hardened, the more Adah unraveled. She nearly collapsed at Claire's feet, crawling forward on her knees and reaching out as though Claire were her last hope, the way a drowning woman claws for a lifeline.

She tried to touch her, to embrace her, desperate to show how truly sorry she was. But before her fingers could graze the hem of Claire's coat, Liam seized her arm and yanked her away.

"Claire-!" Adah wailed, her sobs echoing off the walls. Her face was streaked with tears, and she looked utterly broken.

much-can't you have just a little

the words biting.

her jaw, every syllable deliberate. "On the night of the auction, Vanessa drugged me. I nearly lost everything. Did any of you pity me then?" Adah froze as if struck by lightning. For a moment, she was rigid with shock. A frantic look flickered in her

pinning her down, raining blows with

from her body. She slumped to the floor, deflated, unable even to

you threw May out of the house-left her out there, ignoring her desperate pleas. I begged you, as your own daughter, for a shred of mercy, but

woken up halfway through the night and dragged myself out of the

years, I kept asking myself was I just not good

even capable of being decent human beings. I'm not making you suffer the way you made me suffer. I'm just putting you where

hit Adah like a sledgehammer, pounding

cruelty she'd shown Claire over the years came flooding back, slicing

apologize, let alone ask for forgiveness. What she'd done to her own daughter was monstrous-evil enough to damn her

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