NovelEnglishChapter 299 Adah shook her head desperately, tears streaming down her face.
"I can't. Please, I don't want to go to a place like that." "Claire, I'm begging you," she sobbed, her voice breaking. "Just forgive me, just this once-please! If you forgive me, I'll do anything you say. Anything!" Claire stood there, cold and unmoved, staring at Adah's pitiful pleading. Her lips were pressed together in a hard line, her silence more cutting than words.
The more Claire's expression hardened, the more Adah unraveled. She nearly collapsed at Claire's feet, crawling forward on her knees and reaching out as though Claire were her last hope, the way a drowning woman claws for a lifeline.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtShe tried to touch her, to embrace her, desperate to show how truly sorry she was. But before her fingers could graze the hem of Claire's coat, Liam seized her arm and yanked her away.
"Claire-!" Adah wailed, her sobs echoing off the walls. Her face was streaked with tears, and she looked utterly broken.
"I've begged you so much-can't you have just a little pity on me?" "Pity you?" Claire's voice was icy, the words biting. "Do you even hear yourself?" She clenched her jaw, every syllable deliberate. "On the night of the auction, Vanessa drugged me. I nearly lost everything. Did any of you pitythen?" Adah froze as if struck by lightning. For a moment, she was rigid with shock. A frantic look flickered in her eyes as memories crashed back: that night-she, Nathan, and Ethan-all standing over Claire after she'd been hurt. Not only did they refuse to defend her, they sided with Vanessa. They accused Claire of making a scene, of trying to frVanessa for something she didn't do.
Pushed to the brink, Claire had snapped-tackling Vanessa, pinning her down, raining blows with a heavy glass ashtray.
And after that... Adah's memory faltered, pain draining the life from her body. She slumped to the floor, deflated, unable even to meet Claire's gaze.
Claire's lips curled into a cold smile. "Remember now, Mrs. Linwood? That night, you smashed an ashtray over my head. The rain was pouring outside, and you threw May out of the house-left her out there, ignoring her desperate pleas. I begged you, as your own daughter, for a shred of mercy, but your whole perfect family just stood there and watched." "You leftlying there, half-dead on the cold floor. If I hadn't woken up halfway through the night and dragged myself out of the Linwood house, I would have died there. There'd be no revenge, no reckoning today." "For years, I kept asking myself was I just not good enough? Was that why you all hated me?" "But I finally realized-it wasn't me. It was you. None of you are even capable of being decent human beings. I'm not making you suffer the way you madesuffer. I'm just putting you where you belong. You should be grateful that's all I'm doing." Each word hit Adah like a sledgehammer, pounding on her heart.
All the cruelty she'd shown Claire over the years cflooding back, slicing her open with a thousand dull knives. The pain was overwhelming, suffocating.
Only now did she realize she didn't even deserve to apologize, let alone ask for forgiveness. What she'd done to her own daughter was monstrous-evil enough to damn her soul.
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She didn't deserve pity. Not after the way she'd watched Claire suffer in home-less than human, the Linwood home-gre less than nothing and never once felt a shred of remorse.
Liam dragged Adah away, her body limp and useless, heels scraping the floor and leaving long streaks behind. Her eyes were vacant, her spirit gone, nothing left but an empty shell. Now, it was Nathan and Vanessa's turn.
Nathan had already given up hope. Claire hadn't shown mercy to her the man most responsible for her misery? He couldn't move, couldn't speak he could only look at Claire with eyes full of regret and silent pleas for forgiveness. mother; why bim But Claire's heart was stone.
If murder were legal, she'd have gladly torn Nathan apart herself.
"Take them away," Claire said coldly, her voice flat and unfeeling. "I don't want to see either of them again."
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