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?

could

screamed, his voice raw, "She promised to marry me! I haven't even

bear

pain tore through Sean's chest. He doubled

Mandy, finally regaining consciousness, staggered into the hallway

her tracks, her gaze locked on the doors

a long moment, she didn't move. Then, slowly, she forced herself forward,

and reached

She brushed past, numb, and walked straight into

table, the harsh white lights overhead

blood, her skin even paler than the sheets beneath her. Even her lips were marked by the dark traces of blood she'd

gazed at Claire's lifeless form,

with despair. She had no more tears to shed-she was

of strength had evaporated at the

Mandy gently stroked Claire's face—so soft, so full of

really left me after all," her voice rasped, barely more than a

nothing more than to follow you, to die with you... but I can't.