Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom

Chapter 514

"That's right. Those five years I spent in prison? They were nothing. So now, Mr. Linwood, it's your turn to get a taste of it yourself. After all, it's not an experience most people ever get to have."

"When you've finished serving your time, you might as well die. And if there's another life after this, I'll still curse you to never know peace, not in this life or any other."

As Claire's words-cold and merciless-hung in the air, Nathan's eyes went wide with panic. His whole body trembled.

Claire hated him.

He knew the mistakes he'd made were unforgivable, but hadn't he already

suffered enough? In his last life, after his stroke left him half-paralyzed, he'd been abandoned in the mountains, left to endure endless torment.

Hadn't he paid his debt to Claire already?

Why couldn't she forgive him?

Even in this life, his crimes had led to a death sentence.

Wasn't that enough?

Why did she still have to curse him, to damn him for all eternity?

Tears streamed down Nathan's face as he sobbed, "Claire, I know I was wrong. Why can't you just forgive me?"

one, I've paid the price for everything I did. Isn't that

after this, I swear, I'll be a good father to you-a father who loves you. Please,

how bitterly he wept, Claire's heart remained

Forgiveness?

No. That wasn't forgiveness.

those who hurt you is just another form of cruelty

don't fade with time; they only turn to

for all eternity, she would

looked at Nathan with a cold smile. "Nathan, you have zero

hopeless, like a stray dog

scavenging: Well, today, I'm

your words to

rotten

get to start over, you're still filth. You'll

begging you just give me one

already hung up the phone. She stood, turned, and walked

on the glass, but Claire didn't so much

never saw her again—not before his

for Sophia, Garnett Brown, and Vanessa—the three of them became favorite targets for the other

been weak. Before her execution date could ever arrive,

arms and legs and ribs broken, and even her skull shattered-her

could see in her mind was the memory of how she'd