Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom
Chapter 503
Chapter 494
When Claire opened her eyes, Adah was sitting at her bedside, her face shadowed with worry.
"Claire, are you alright?" Adah asked softly.
Claire pushed herself upright in the hospital bed. The anesthesia had worn off, and she felt perfectly fine now-no lingering pain, nothing to worry about. She glanced at Adah, her expression cool and detached. "Thank you for this, but consider any past grudges between us settled. It's done."
A flash of hope lit up Adah's face. "Claire, does that mean you've finally forgiven me? You're willing to come home? You won't leave me anymore?"
Claire's tone was icy. "Ms. Jones, I'm afraid you're misunderstanding. I said the old resentment is over, not that I'm coming home with you, or accepting you as my mother."
She fixed Adah with a steady gaze. "Have you forgotten? My last name is Sterling now-not Linwood. I have my own parents, my own brother. Why should I go back with you?"
Adah's expression collapsed, pain flickering in her eyes. "Claire, I'm your real mother. The Sterlings took you from me."
Claire let out a cold, humorless laugh. "They never 'took' me. The truth is, I stopped needing you a long time ago."
looked away, voice flat but firm. "Maybe you don't know this, but in my last life, the Sterlings visited the orphanage intending to adopt me. But back then, Vincent Lewis was my best friend—I refused to leave him and turned down the adoption. I thought I was making the right
I could have had a loving family, a brother who protected me, parents who cared. Instead, I went back to the Linwood family and suffered nothing but cruelty
shoulders slumping as if the
I know I was
say you regret it, but you never change. You have
Claire's words; she didn't spare Adah's feelings in
say it again." She
share the same air any longer. She felt fine, so why stay in the hospital? After half a year at the research institute, it had been
nothing more than to go home and see them. Eight years would they even
bed, Claire slipped on her
to her feet. "Claire, where are
Northcrest City. I want to see my
Claire spoke of the Sterlings with
her, hesitation written across her
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