Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 492

The girl stared at him, utterly transfixed, and Victor couldn't help but think to himself-she must be dazzled by my good looks again.

He cleared his throat, feigning an aloof attitude as if he hadn't noticed her interest,

and strode past Claire without a second glance.

For her part, Claire only froze for a moment before snapping out of it and

continuing on her way.

The two of them walked off in opposite directions, the distance between them growing with every step.

Claire was just about to leave the gated community when Victor suddenly let out a shocked exclamation.

"Holy crap! I remember now!"

"She-she-she's that prodigy from the Tempest family in Northcrest City!"

"She got into the National Defense Polytechnic at five, graduated college at nine, and wrote a world-changing paper that triggered an international frenzy. The Federated States of Bellatoria even offered her a fortune to recruit her, but then she just vanished—gone for eight years."

Only the top specialists in major hospitals even

country's most renowned physicians, Victor certainly knew. He spun around, his gaze burning into

was his idol—a genius the likes of which the world saw maybe once in a

a coherent thought. He quickened

Two masked, burly men jumped out, grabbed Claire without a word,

saw the whole thing-every terrifying

else,

reached the gate, the black

No, no, no.

had been

rare, so brilliant-was a national treasure. If

it would be a disaster

his phone

Adah, hoping she would call the police for her. Ironically, before Adah could even react,

police got the report, they were just

protected individual-her genius had brought the nation

Instead, she'd been abducted.

something went wrong, Cresthaven would never live

the country's economic powerhouses, rankingún the top ten nationally. If this gifted scientist