Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 300

As soon as Claire gave the order, Jeffry moved to grab Vanessa.

Vanessa had already become a bundle of nerves, skittish as a startled deer. "No, please! I don't want to go up into those mountains!"

But Jeffry wasn't about to show her any mercy. He hauled her up like she weighed nothing, gripping her as though she were no more than a squirming chicken.

Vanessa's legs flailed wildly, terror dilating her eyes until they looked impossibly wide.

Just as Jeffry was about to carry her out of the villa, Vanessa suddenly shrieked, her voice breaking with desperation. "Claire! You can't do this to me! Your kidney is still inside my body! If you let me go, I'll give it back to you-I swear!"

Jeffry froze mid-stride, glancing over his shoulder at Sean and Claire, silently asking for direction.

Sensing a glimmer of hope, Vanessa looked at Claire with pleading, expectant eyes.

Everyone in the room seemed to think Claire would back down for the sake of her kidney.

a cold laugh, her bright eyes shining with a glint of frost. "And why," she asked

fell. No one could quite

let Vanessa keep it? Was

mask of shock and confusion. She stammered, "You... you don't want your kidney

anything, it was the kind of smile that made

I want it back, all right," she replied evenly. "But I never said I

right now. I can live perfectly well with one kidney. But you? You only have one left. If I took it back now, you'd die on the spot and I'd be a murderer. No, I'd rather wait. I want to see you dragged off to the mountains, suffering through every miserable day with just that one kidney. After all you'll endure, do you really think you'll outlive me? I can simply wait for you to die, then take my kidney back-legally, cleanly, with no blood on

and

didn't just hate her-she wanted her to suffer, to be broken down piece

had no intention of dirtying her own hands. Instead, she'd come up with a way to make Vanessa pay-by sending her off to the wild, untamed mountains, letting the harshness of that place do the work for

princess who'd never known hardship. She would be miserable

brutish man in the mountains decided to force himself on her,

uncontrollably. She fought Jeffry's grip

to me! Even if you torture me to death, I'll never agree to donate my organs-you'll