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.

then and there. But this was, after all, Claire's birth

about to lose her beloved daughter

enough to make her nose sting and her eyes fill with

with hope and fear, as if

person. Just the other day in the boutique, you tried to hurt my sister for another

so hard that Adah, caught off guard, fell backwards

barely above a whisper. "Whatever hope I had for you in my past life, you used it alfup. In this life, I refuse to

that, Claire turned away without

e'

lunging forward to grab Claire's

you for nine months.

looked back, her eyes

immediately lowered her head

right to accuse Claire of anything. In her last life, she had never once shown Claire mercy as a

spiteful girl, while Claire had been treated worse than the help in the Linwood

go." Claire's voice

clung on, desperate.

that moment, Orion rushed forward and sank his teeth into the

yelped in pain

together they dashed back to Mr. and