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.”

snorted and tossed the

I’ll finish her

steps, then

water disinfects wounds. Bring a whole bucket of sea salt and dump it on her.

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it’ll leave scars. I want this bitch to remember for the rest of her life that she was born

don’t let

tried to crawl away, but she had no strength left. The

water poured over her shredded skin, and her

the

His eyes

her just like that–half–dead, covered in wounds–when he’d found her.

How could she?

ripped his arm out of Sharon’s grip, eyes

“It was you?”

me! That video

Sharon was panicking.

There were no cameras in the basement. How did that bitch

Jensen hate her. The Summers family needed the

Natalie and shrieked, “She faked it! We never had surveillance down there! She

telling the

forward, eyes

raised you like a princess for eighteen years! Even when 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

eyes glistened with fake tears. Everyone

years ago–Quincy

watching Quincy throw her under the bus to protect Sharon,

She laughed coldly.

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 installed a

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Even His Disdain

Quincy’s face paled.