When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 48 Retribution

Sharon once again clung to the Luke family’s name.

Baron’s lips curved into a dark, wicked smile.

“Perfect. I never planned on sparing Jensen anyway. I’ll just start with you.”

As he spoke, he stepped toward her.

Only then did Sharon notice what was dragging at his feet-a massive iron hammer.

The scrape of metal against the floor echoed in the empty room, chilling her to the bone.

She froze, terror flooding her.

“No! Don’t! Please, let me go! I’ll do anything you want, just don’t hurt me! Natalie’s already dead-whatever you do now, she’ll never know. How about this-I’ll give you money, a lot of money! Just let me go!”

For the first time in years, Sharon felt genuine fear.

This man was insane.

She could see the madness burning in his eyes. And she couldn’t lose her hand-she wasn’t a designer, but she knew how much pain it would bring.

Baron smirked at her pleas. “Oh? A lot of money? And how much is a lot?”

“Name a price! Whatever you ask, I’ll give it. If the Summers family can’t, then the Luke family can!”

Seeing him pause, as if in thought, Sharon’s heart leapt with desperate hope.

Baron’s voice came cold. “And how much do you think you’re worth?”

“Ten million! I’ll give you ten million!”

blurted it out, afraid hesitation would cost

“So you’re only worth

no! Fifty million! A hundred million! I’ll give

the stakes,

her grovel, Baron felt disgust coil

do you have to even compare yourself to Natalie?

but Sharon dared not shout

her

Baron only thought of Natalie-and his rage

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the one who left her scarred and broken? She

eyes turned

could react, he swung the

“Ahhh!”

landed with a sickening crack. Sharon hadn’t imagined retribution would come so fast-too fast to even scream before

that begged

shattered

voice was a blade. “A hundred million? You’re worth nothing. When Natalie’s hand was smashed,

the

screams

in sweat, the chains

sprayed across Baron’s face, the crimson setting off the mole at his eye-like the mark of

beg you, let me

sobs turned to incoherent wails. But Baron felt

hadn’t been at Natalie’s side, she had been left to suffer like this, beaten

to forbid her from even

Unforgivable.

then he, the underworld’s king, would deliver vengeance by