Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 477

No. No, please. Don't do this.

She hadn't regained the memories of her previous life just to drift further and further away from Claire.

She knew she'd been wrong. In her last life, she'd paid the price for it.

Whatever she owed Claire, she'd repaid it in full-every last bit.

Suddenly, Adah threw her arms around Claire's small frame.

"Claire, please, don't leave Mommy. I know I was wrong. Please, forgive me, will you?"

Her sobs were messy and desperate, tears streaming down her face. The sight struck a chord with everyone around them.

"No matter what, she's still Miss Tempest's biological mother. And if anyone's to blame for what happened, it's Nathan-he's the one who abandoned his daughter. Mrs. Linwood had nothing to do with that."

"Exactly. Only a mother knows the pain of losing her child. I think we should let her have her daughter back."

"That's right, that's right."

Whispers began to ripple through the crowd.

Mrs. Tempest felt her mind go blank. She looked at Claire, her eyes full of heartbreak and reluctance.

snatch Claire back right then and there. But this was, after all, Claire's birth mother-however disastrously she'd failed at parenting, the love

to

was enough to make her nose

her voice trembling with hope and

face flushed with anger as he glared at Adah. "You're not a good person. Just the other day in the boutique, you tried to

so hard that Adah, caught off guard,

hope I had for you in my past life, you used it alfup. In this life, I refuse to be

turned away without

e'

Adah shrieked, lunging forward

and blood! I carried you for nine months. You can't do this

her eyes

that gaze and immediately

no right to accuse Claire of anything. In her last life,

to Vanessa, that spiteful girl, while Claire had been treated worse than the

go." Claire's voice

on, desperate.

Orion rushed forward and sank his teeth into the hand Adah had

pain and

Claire's hand and together they dashed back