Chapter 84

"Your brother, huh. The one bringing you roses." Heh... Nelson Cooper let out a cold, mocking laugh as he watched the black Maybach slowly disappear into the distance. Probably the same 'dear brother' she's been happily chatting with the second her phone turned on this morning. He kept staring in that direction for a while, eyes fixed, cold covering his face. Inside the car, not once did anyone even look back at him. Claire liked roses. At first, it was just the daydream of a girl with a crush—hoping someone might give her a rose. Just one would've meant the world. But when nothing ever came, the obsession started to take root. And when no one ever gave her a single flower, she began giving them to herself instead. If no one else would love her—why not just love herself? Back overseas, she even went out of her way to take a botany class, all for the sake of figuring out how to grow roses on her own. The tiny apartment she lived in was filled with them, wall to wall. Once her family, th