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?"

exactly as Adah remembered-yet, somehow, like

Adah's and Nathan's best traits, striking

this Claire was nothing like the girl from

pretty, yes, but so painfully thin

five-foot-seven, with a healthy figure, every

how little the Linwood family had

walked toward her,

back to

was too emotional to stop herself, firing off one

calm, unmoved by

Claire had longed for in her past life, but never received, not

brother who truly loved her. As for Adaband

Claire

Adah stumble back several steps; she

wounded. "Claire, you still can't forgive your

with a look of cold contempt. Adah faltered. She knew, deep

to bury

ssment, forcing a b

her face.