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.

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

really about to lose

her nose

hope and fear, as if even making the request might scare Claire

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

free, shoving Adah so hard that Adah,

for you in my past life, you used it alfup. In this life,

turned away without

e'

forward to

and blood! I carried you for nine months.

looked back, her eyes

immediately lowered her head

right to accuse Claire of anything. In her last life, she

her love had gone to Vanessa, that spiteful girl, while Claire

Claire's voice was

clung on, desperate.

and sank his teeth

in pain and instinctively

together they dashed back to Mr. and