Where Petals of Vengeance Bloom novel Chapter 244

If Adah's second child had been a boy, Nathan might not have abandoned him at the orphanage. After all, a boy would carry on the Linwood family name, sharing his lineage.

But fate had other plans—a second daughter was born.

"What good is a useless girl?" Nathan thought as he coldly decided to take Claire away, leaving her at the orphanage. He then returned with the child born to Sophia, passing her off as an adopted daughter for Adah to raise, soothing her grief for the lost Claire.

Every time Nathan watched Adah doting on Vanessa as though she were her own flesh and blood, he experienced a twisted sense of satisfaction.

During Claire's birth, Adah lost a kidney, leaving her unable to conceive again.

Determined to prevent the Linwood family line from ending, Nathan took a sinister turn. He pushed Abbott from a construction site, staging the murder as an unfortunate accident.

Seizing the opportunity, Nathan took over Jones Group, renaming it The Linwood Group, and even changed Ethan Jones’s surname to Linwood.

The loss of Claire and her father’s sudden death hit Adah like a pair of devastating blows, leaving her physically and emotionally shattered. She withdrew from the business world, her health deteriorating, and rarely involved herself in company affairs.

Initially, Nathan had only Ethan as a son and showed some attention to him. But when Sophia became pregnant again and gave birth to a boy, everything changed.

Nathan instantly found Ethan, who bore the Jones family blood, to be a bothersome thorn in his side.

To pave the way for Sophia’s son, Nathan cunningly made Ethan the legal representative of the company, planning to let Ethan take the fall if any problems arose.

When Vanessa inherited Sophia’s kidney disease, Nathan's first thought was of Claire. Reasoning that if Adah’s kidney could be transplanted to Sophia, then Claire’s could surely save Vanessa.

This was his true motive for retrieving Claire from the orphanage.

To ensure his plan's success, he went so far as to frame Claire, landing her in prison. After all, in his eyes, who would care about a convict losing a kidney?

Over the years, Nathan quietly siphoned off the company’s assets, transferring them all to Sophia.

Originally, he planned to collaborate with Foster & Co., make one last fortune, and then leave all debts to Adah and Ethan while he fled abroad with Sophia, Vanessa, and their son.

But the deal with Foster & Co. fell through, and Nathan ended up with a broken leg, forcing him to temporarily shelve his plans.

The contents of the second page of the documents were like a nightmare, completely overturning Claire's understanding of Nathan's cruelty.

He was nothing short of a monster, devouring everything in his path.