Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 388

"That's impossible. I don't believe it. Claire can't be dead. Go back in there and save her go! Save her!" Sean shook his head desperately, refusing to accept the brutal truth.

Jeffry, Liam, Victor, and Normand all stood frozen in place, stunned.

Claire...dead?

How could this be?

Why her?

It just wasn't fair.

She'd never hurt anyone in her life-hardworking, bright, honest, and kind. Claire was one of those rare good souls. Yet from the moment she was born, her own father abandoned her. She barely survived fifteen years in an orphanage, only to return home and face cruelty, false accusations, and five years behind bars for a crime she didn't commit.

She finally got out, but life never let up. Again and again, she was targeted, framed, pushed to the very edge-until her life was finally snuffed out.

Weren't good people supposed to be rewarded? So why did someone like Claire have to die such a miserable death?

Why? Why her?

one could

raw, "She promised to marry me! I haven't even brought her home

closed his eyes, unable to bear

pain tore through Sean's chest. He doubled over-and coughed

that Mandy, finally regaining consciousness, staggered into

her tracks, her gaze locked on

she didn't move. Then, slowly, she forced herself forward, step by

and reached out.

She brushed past, numb, and walked straight

Claire lay motionless on the cold steel table, the harsh white lights overhead as bleak

even paler than the sheets beneath her. Even her lips were marked by

gazed at Claire's lifeless form, grief flooding her

dull, blank with despair. She had no

strength had evaporated at the

trembling fingers, Mandy gently stroked Claire's face—so soft, so full of love and

me after all," her voice rasped, barely more than

more than to follow