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 could she endure such

up and

eyes darkened. With a sharp kick, his long leg slammed into her

flew back, smacking against the wall before crashing to the floor. She wailed in pain, unable to

over the bed, planting his foot

just a gift. Now…

striking eyes and the

helped that bitch Natalie at

gut, but

dead out there? Arrest

rose in

smiled faintly. A prick at her

she came to, she was strapped to a cold iron

and

Jensen’s wife! If you dare harm me,

Fear crept in.

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

a cracked ceiling above, memories clawed at

that had raised her by mistake-had been poor, brutal, and

when she learned she was the

a silver spoon, lived like that? Why had Natalie, that slut,

buried those memories. But now, bound and

Her body shook.