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.

He couldn’t seem to draw in

Just because he had

What place did he, Jensen, have in

pressure inside

mouthful of blood, splattering it all

a knock

Anyone home? Delivery! If

voice sounded from

intention of answering. But

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something

she was gone, Jensen didn’t want to miss anything that had

up, wiped the blood from his lips, and hurried

“Whose package?”

face and bloodshot eyes startled the

“Uh, Ms. Summers’s package.”

her husband. I’ll

across the slip, and carried the

like

he tore it

inside, his eyes

training

Fracian?


Natalie attended Fracian

full course over half a month.

when he and Felix had been speaking in Fracian-Natalie could understand every

why Natalie had left so

already discovered everything he had

ten days ago, that

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