When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 31

Chapter 31 The Truth Natalie Knew

He kept watching, only to see Natalie get up to close the window because of the rain, accidentally knocking over their framed photo together.

From behind that photo slipped out another one-of him and Sharon.

Jensen froze.

When had he ever put that picture into the frame?

Why didn’t he remember it at all?

Then, in the video, Natalie was laughing and crying at the same time, looking as if she might shatter at any

moment.

Even through the screen, Jensen could feel her despair.

He instinctively reached out to caress the cold surface of the video, but then heard Natalie’s broken voice say, “So Sharon is really your crush, and I was just the fallback.”

“No! That’s not true! Natalie, it’s not like that!”

Jensen hurried to explain, but what kind of response could he expect from a cold recording?

He watched as Natalie yanked down the paper crane wind chime, smashed it, and swept it away like trash.

A sharp pain tore through Jensen’s chest.


“Why? Why would you do that? Do you know how many nights it took you to fold those cranes?”

“You knew they were the proof of our love. How could you be so cruel as to throw them away?”

Jensen clutched his chest, gasping for breath.

burned. He couldn’t seem to draw in enough

he hadn’t been with her on her birthday? Just because he had gone to Sharon instead? Was Natalie

he mean to her? What place

pressure inside him

of blood, splattering

knock came

If

courier’s voice sounded from

of answering. But then it

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was something

want to miss anything that had

from

“Whose package?”

pale face and bloodshot

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

I’ll

across the slip, and

was light, like it

tore

his eyes widened, his heart

Fracian training

Fracian?


had Natalie

It showed she had completed the full

and Felix had been

Natalie had left so decisively after he abandoned her to take

everything he had tried

ago, that he

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