When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 6 Even His Disdain Is Breathtaking

The video played.

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On screen. Sharon, dressed in a red riding outfit, yanked Natalie’s hair and slammed her head against a rusted pipe. Blood streamed down from Natalie’s lashes like a curtain of crimson.

“You filthy bitch. You stole eighteen years of my life in luxury. You should’ve died, Natalie!”

She kept slamming Natalie’s head again and again.

Natalie crumpled like a rag doll.

Her eighteen–year–old back was already torn to shreds–raw, bloody, barely human. But Sharon raised her crocodile–skin whip again and cracked it through the air.

“Go to hell!”

“Ah!”

The pain wracked through Natalie’s body. She screamed, trembling violently as she curled in on herself.

She crawled forward, dragging herself toward Quincy’s embroidered hem.

“Mom, please… please save me. You raised me for eighteen years. We were mother and daughter for eighteen years. That has to count for something. I swear I’ll be good to you. I’ll be the best daughter ever, I promise.”

Blood and tears blurred her face, but Quincy didn’t even flinch.

She wrinkled her nose and took a step back, silk slipping from Natalie’s hands.

Fiddling with her bracelet, as if the scent of blood offended her, Quincy said calmly, “Natalie, if it weren’t for you, our real daughter wouldn’t have spent eighteen years out there suffering. If you truly care about us, then let Sharon vent.”

“But I’ll die like this! Mom, she’ll kill me!”

Natalie’s voice shook, raw with fear.

“Then die. That’s your fate,” Quincy said coldly. “As long as my daughter is happy, I don’t care what happens to you.”

She turned to Sharon with a gentle smile. “Sharon, there’s plenty of time. You can beat her more later. Don’t tire yourself out before our family portrait session.”

tossed

her off

took two steps, then

Bring a whole bucket of sea salt and dump it on her. She

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around longer. Plus, it’ll leave scars. I want this bitch to

Please, no! Mom, don’t let her do this

to crawl away, but she had no strength left.

water poured over her shredded skin, and her scream tore out of the

in the

clenched tight. His eyes burned with shock and

he’d found her.

How could she?

his arm out of Sharon’s grip, eyes as

“It was you?”

me! That

Sharon was panicking.

were no cameras in the basement.

Jensen hate her. The Summers family needed the Luke family’s

and shrieked, “She faked it! We never had surveillance down there! She made this video to frame

telling the

stepped forward, eyes gleaming

we found out you weren’t really our daughter, I still let you live with us. But you couldn’t stop sleeping around. We had no choice but to send you away. And now you’re spreading lies? What did I ever do to

glistened with fake tears. Everyone

had known. She knew five years ago–Quincy didn’t care about her at

watching Quincy throw her under the bus

She laughed coldly.

a camera in the basement at first. But do you remember that night you went down there alone to retrieve something and fell? No one noticed until I went to look for you and pulled you out. After that, I

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His

Quincy’s face paled.