Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 471

Hearing Adah's shameless words, Claire's disgust toward her only grew.

All that talk about making it up to her-did Adah really not remember how deeply she'd hurt Claire in their last life? Did she not know just how much Claire had come to hate the Linwood family back then?

If Adah truly wanted to make amends, then she should act as if she were dead— never appear in Claire's life again.

Adah gazed at Claire, her eyes brimming with a feigned tenderness. "Claire, I'm your real mother. Come home with me, sweetheart."

But Claire's face was icy, none of the warmth she showed the Tempests remained.

"This is my home," she replied coldly.

The sting of rejection from her own daughter pierced Adah's heart all over again.

"Claire, you have to believe me I love you. I carried you for nine months, how could I ever bear to abandon you? It was your father, that monster! He's the one who left you at the orphanage—I had no idea."

"Now that I've finally found you, can't you just come home with me? Please?"

"You always liked pretty dresses, didn't you? I can buy you as many as you want, any kind you like."

She just cherished whatever the Tempests gave her—even a leaf, a stone, anything at all. As

Adah, even if she managed to pluck the moon from the sky and offer it to her,

into Mrs. Tempest's

"Mom, I'm so tired."

stroked Claire's little back, her eyes full of warmth and

you're tired, just sleep, darling. You've had a long day with all those

that, she scooped Claire into her arms and

forward, desperate to snatch

my daughter? Give her back to me! She's

quickly stepped between them. "You're not welcome here. Please

a daughter so badly, you should've had your own. Why are you

darkened. He had no intention of arguing with

her

in black appeared, one on each side of Adah. Without a word, they hauled her out and

pounded on the door, no one came to

cast one

A shabby apartment.