Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 480

Adah turned her cold gaze to Vanessa.

Vanessa was already trembling uncontrollably. "Mom..."

"Shut up. I'm not your mother," Adah spat, her voice icy and sharp. "A brat like you doesn't deserve to call me that."

"Oh, you love to eat, don't you? Always snatching things from Claire? Fine. Today, I'll let you eat your fill."

With that, Adah grabbed Vanessa by the collar, yanking her close, then seized the remaining pastries from the table and began shoving them into Vanessa's mouth one after another.

“Eat! I said eat! If you don't finish every last piece, I swear I'll beat you senseless."

Vanessa's mouth was crammed so full she could barely breathe. Her wide eyes brimmed with terror.

She gagged and wretched, but Adah kept a firm hand clamped over her mouth, refusing to let her spit anything out.

In the end, Vanessa was forced to swallow everything, stuffing herself with five times her usual amount of food.

She collapsed on the floor, clutching her stomach, crying so hard she couldn't even make a sound.

It was only then that Ethan snapped out of his shock.

treat Vanessa like this? Dad's the one

pleaded, "Please, take her to the hospital. Can't you

about her so much, why

your son! How can you be so

Claire was her daughter, too, and hadn't Claire suffered enough at the hands of her own father, mother, and

with the Linwood family, five more behind bars—eight long years of torment. Claire had been battered and broken, inside

single day of peace. Everyone who hurt her should

out," Adah said, her tone ice-cold

clenched his jaw. "You'll regret this, Mom.

his arms and, step by step, carried her

finally come to. When

shot

bolt of

The day will come when I pay you back for

much about your precious daughter, don't

she suffers the same

side, Nathan led his broken family away, each step

watched them go, her

third day, it was time

her

Tempest cleared his entire schedule, and together