Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life

"Boss! Don't come in, Ms. Flora's gone off the deep end!"

The bodyguards yelled desperately.

Stay out, or you'll get caught up in this mess too!

Adrian was frantically signaling to Karter, "Dad, seriously, don't come in. Flora's in a rage right now!"

Flora whipped around to the door, and as soon as she spotted Karter, her grip on the gun tightened like a vice.

Her eyes were bloodshot, veins popping, filled with a wild, furious energy that was ready to explode.

Ah, so you've finally come back.

Flora licked her teeth, eyes blazing with a fiery red, her slightly reddened eyes narrowing with determination and hatred.

Karter caught sight of Flora standing in the yard, gun in hand, and his eyes widened for just a second. Seeing the bodyguards sprawled across the ground and the panic on Ryan and Adrian's faces, he pieced together what was happening. Flora, she must have found out.

Did she think, like her father did, that he was behind her parents' deaths?

Karter paused, then started moving towards the villa, making his way to Flora.

As he approached, Flora watched him intently, her chest rising and falling, her knuckles turning white from gripping the gun so hard. When he was just about a meter away, she pulled the trigger- "Bang!"

The bullet whizzed past Karter's ear and hit the doorframe behind him.

Flora never missed, yet this time, she did. Whether it was on purpose or not, who could say?

"Ms. Flora, please, don't act on impulse!"

Adrian's heart was pounding. Flora had been causing chaos in the Reyes family for a while, but this was the first time she'd actually fired a gun. He could tell she was serious.

He stepped in front of Karter, arms wide: "Flora, let's talk this through, okay? What's going on?"

"Step aside."

"Flora..."

"If you keep blocking me, I won't hold back."

Her voice was icy, cutting through the air with no hint of warmth.

"Adrian's always been genuine with you, he's never meant you any harm. Why take it out on him?" Karter stepped forward, facing Flora. "I get what you're thinking. Do you really believe I had something to do with your parents' deaths?"

"So you admit it?!" Flora's pent-up emotions burst forth in an instant!

Honestly, she didn't have much connection to the parents she never knew. What she couldn't handle was the revelation that Raul and Henrik weren't her real father and brother.

Plus, the info Crimson dug up pointed the blame at Karter, forcing Raul and Henrik to live in constant fear. She couldn't take it.

She had a firestorm inside that needed an outlet.

And Karter was the perfect target.

He was the reason her real parents died and her family lived in fear, while he thrived. How was that fair?

Adrian finally got it, urgently saying,

"Flora, you must be wrong! My dad couldn't have been responsible for your parents' deaths! You found out about your background, right? My dad and Gerald were tight, he was crushed when Gerald passed away!"

He said a lot, but Flora and Karter weren't listening.

Karter met Flora's gaze, his expression a mix of emotions: "If I say I didn't do it, would you believe me? Your parents' death had nothing to do with me."

"Can you honestly say you had no part in it?"

As Flora's words settled, Karter fell into a silent pause.

His silence, to Flora, spoke volumes.

"Ha... Nothing to say, huh?"

Slowly, Flora raised the gun, pressing it to his forehead. Just a slight pull of the trigger, and it would all be over.

...

The Falcone family.