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.

begged you so much-can't you have just

Claire's voice was icy, 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 eyes as memories crashed back: that night-she, Nathan, and Ethan-all standing over Claire after she'd been

had snapped—tackling Vanessa, pinning her down, raining blows with a heavy

that... Adah's memory faltered, pain draining the life from her body. She slumped to the floor, deflated, unable even

out of the house-left her out there, ignoring her desperate pleas. I begged you, as your own daughter, for

through the night and dragged myself out of the Linwood house, I would have died there. There'd be no revenge,

asking myself was I just not good enough? Was that why you

making you suffer the way you made me suffer. I'm

word hit Adah like a sledgehammer,

back, slicing her open with a thousand dull knives. The pain was overwhelming,

did she realize she didn't even deserve to apologize, let alone ask for forgiveness. What she'd done to her own daughter was

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