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.

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

leapt up and clawed toward Baron’s

kick,

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

foot firmly on her chest. Murder

slap was just a

face, his striking eyes and the mole at the corner

man who helped that bitch Natalie at the press

seared her gut, but fury

all dead out there? Arrest

rose

prick at her neck, and

to, she was strapped to a cold iron

wrists and ankles were

go! I’m Jensen’s wife! If you

Fear crept in.

the Summers family and Jensen’s favor. Now, stripped

a bleak room with a cracked ceiling above,

poor, brutal, and favored sons over daughters.

when she learned she was the Summers family’s

like that? Why had Natalie, that slut, enjoyed my

buried those memories. But now, bound and trembling, she

Her body shook.