Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 486

"Oh, right—she vanished eight years ago. No one's heard a word since. So what if she was a genius? So what if she aced every class? It never brought her a good life, did it? She was doomed from the start. She's probably dead already—a wretched little thing, gone before her time."

Adah's temper flared. She raised her hand, ready to slap him across the face.

Ethan, his face smeared with blood, stared back at her defiantly. He didn't even flinch.

"Go on. Hit me. You could beat me to death and I wouldn't care. Without Vanessa, there's no reason for me to stay in this house. I'd be better off dead."

"Your own daughter's gone. If you finish me off too, you'll have no one left. The family line ends with you."

"You-" Adah was shaking, so furious her whole body trembled.

Just then, a soft, melodic female voice echoed through the living room.

"I'm afraid you'll be disappointed, Mr. Ethan. I'm very much alive."

Adah's head snapped up. She saw Claire walking through the doorway.

The moment she saw Claire, tears streamed down her face-she simply couldn't hold them back.

"Claire? Is it really you?"

as Adah

of Adah's and Nathan's

like the girl from the

but so painfully thin and small, her collarbones jutting

every inch the result of

little the Linwood family had ever

and walked toward her,

Have you finally come back to see your mother? Are you

too emotional to stop herself, firing off

stayed perfectly calm,

had longed for in her past life, but

had a real family-a father, a mother, a brother who truly loved her. As for Adaband Ethan? They were nothing more

Claire shoved Adah

Adah stumble back several

looked at her, wounded. "Claire, you still can't forgive your mother, can

gaze with a look of cold contempt. Adah

to

ssment, forcing a b

her