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.

City’s queen. How could she endure

up and clawed toward Baron’s

darkened. With a sharp kick, his long leg slammed

back, smacking against the wall before crashing to the floor.

over the bed, planting his foot firmly on her chest. Murder radiated from

just a gift. Now… welcome

his face, his striking eyes and the mole at the corner revealed him

helped that bitch Natalie

seared her gut, but

all dead out

voice rose in a

only smiled faintly. A prick at her neck,

to, she was strapped to a cold iron

wrists and ankles

Jensen’s wife! If you dare harm me, he’ll never let

Fear crept in.

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

a cracked ceiling above,

been poor, brutal, and favored sons over daughters. Beatings

was why, when she learned she was the Summers family’s true daughter, her mind

I, born with a silver spoon, lived like that? Why had Natalie, that

Summers’ love and indulgence had buried those memories. But now, bound and trembling, she felt

Her body shook.