When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 47 Human Hell

When Sharon saw Baron step up to her, syringe in hand, really about to inject her, she exploded.

“I’ll have you know I’m Jensen’s wife, the president of Luke Corp. If you dare cross me, I’ll make sure you can’t survive in Ocean City!”

She threw out her title, convinced it would make him back off.

But Baron acted as if he hadn’t heard a word. He drove the needle straight into her arm.

“You-”

Sharon tried to swing at him, but Baron was too fast. Just as she lifted her arm, he had already pressed the plunger down. Then t palm cracked across her face.

The sharp slap echoed in the room. Sharon was knocked flat onto the bed.

Her cheek burned, the sting telling her this was no nightmare.

She had actually been struck.

Wide-eyed, she stared at him in disbelief.

“You hit me? You-some lowly doctor-dared to hit me?”

Ever since she’d returned to the Summers family at eighteen, her parents had bent over backward to make up for those missir years. She’d been spoiled, coddled, given everything she asked for.

was Jensen’s wife, Ocean City’s queen. How

she leapt up and

sharp kick, his

body flew back, smacking against the wall before crashing

the bed, planting his foot

a gift. Now… welcome

his mask still covered his face, his striking eyes

that bitch Natalie

gut, but fury

dead out there? Arrest this

rose in a

faintly. A prick at her neck, and darkness swallowed her

came to, she was strapped to

wrists and ankles

Let me go! I’m Jensen’s wife! If you dare harm me, he’ll never

Fear crept in.

had always come from the Summers family and Jensen’s favor. Now, stripped of it, she was

in a bleak room with a cracked ceiling above, memories clawed at

family-the one that had raised her by mistake-had been poor, brutal, and favored sons over

was why, when she learned she was the

silver spoon, lived like that? Why had Natalie, that slut, enjoyed my eighteen

those memories. But now, bound and trembling,

Her body shook.