When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 28 Ashes and Regret

That innocent, yearning heart of a girl had once beat only for Jensen.

Five years of sweet memories dissolved like soap bubbles. When Sharon and Jensen registered their marriage, Natalie finally realized just how much of a fool she’d been all along.

She had wanted to walk away from them, start fresh, rebuild her own life. So why? Why did she still have to endure Jensen’s betrayal?

Why did Sharon keep hounding her?

In the end, she even died in that fire.

The way the flames scorched her flesh

the pain was unbearable.

She had thought that even if love had faded, five years of being together would at least earn her a little dignity. But in the end?

Why didn’t they leave her even that?

“Jensen…” Natalie murmured through gritted teeth.

If I could go back in time, I would’ve rather died in the Summers’ backyard than followed you. I would never have fallen in love with you.

Inside the operating room, Baron focused entirely on the surgery. The scalpel in his hand moved like a living extension of him, swift and precise.

But when Natalie suddenly whispered that name, his hand trembled.

The next second, the scalpel veered—aiming directly for her chest.

At the last possible moment, Baron caught the blade between his fingers.

Fresh blood dripped onto Natalie’s chest.

the unconscious woman still murmuring someone else’s name, a dark jealousy surged in him like a wave ready to drown

really can’t let go of Jensen,

nearly

just before he touched her, reason slammed back into

with you

and forced himself to calm down, resuming the surgery with steady

in her unconscious state, Natalie had sensed the threat of death in that moment. Her body twitched -but then the

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wave of exhaustion hit her, and

lasted over ten hours.

out of the OR, Finn and Shauna

“Mr. Baron, your body-”

body was well past its limits. He swayed, and

Level One security. Protect her life at all costs. If I don’t wake up… from

with that, he

Baron!” Finn shouted, lifting him in his arms and hurrying to the

doctor!”

doctors wouldn’t do much

–

it was

Baron unconscious, the entire estate fell into chaos. But the room where Natalie rested was sealed off, guarded so tightly not even a

Jensen regained

a public cemetery, the man who had once spoiled Sharon endlessly – for the first time – raised his

do you think you are, making decisions for

stumbling to the floor, her cheek stinging with a hot

“You hit me?”

off easy! If I weren’t remembering the fact that you once saved

looked pale, but the fury

storm.

Her heart pounded with fear even