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.

Ocean City’s queen. How could she endure such

leapt up and clawed

eyes darkened. With a sharp kick, his long

wall before crashing to the floor. She wailed in pain,

foot firmly on

a gift.

striking eyes and the mole at the

helped that bitch Natalie

gut, but fury

dead out there? Arrest this

rose in

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

to, she was strapped to a cold

and ankles were

go! I’m Jensen’s wife! If you dare

Fear crept in.

Summers family and Jensen’s favor. Now, stripped of it, she was

bleak room with a cracked ceiling above, memories clawed at

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

was the Summers family’s true daughter, her

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

and indulgence had buried those memories. But now, bound and trembling, she felt like that beaten little girl

Her body shook.