When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 49 Suspicions

The man was staying in a five-star hotel. For Natalie to have personally designed cufflinks for him, his status had to be extraordinary, and he certainly wasn’t short of money. How could Jensen possibly persuade such a man to give them up?

The thought left him restless and agitated.

Just then, security called.

“Mr. Luke, there’s a woman lying outside the Grand Pavilion. Her right arm is covered in blood. You should come take a look. I think it’s the same woman who tried to force her way in here the other day.”

Jensen froze.

“Sharon? What happened to her?”

“Not sure. Looks like her right hand was smashed to pieces-bloody, a real mess. It’s terrifying.”

The words jolted Jensen upright so violently that the tablet on his lap clattered to the floor, forgotten.

“What did you just say?”

“Her right hand’s been shattered-blood everywhere. It’s gruesome.”

The security guard’s clearer explanation made Jensen’s heart pound.

Not long ago, Sharon had been the one who ordered Natalie’s right hand broken.

Back then, he had forced Natalie to swallow her pain, forbidding her to press charges.

Now Sharon lay mangled in the same way.

Could it be… Natalie was still alive?

The possibility made his pulse race.

coming right now. Call

“Yes, Mr. Luke.”

up and

to see Sharon’s injury with his own

Natalie’s, then it meant only one thing-Natalie might still be

filled him

Natalie lived, he would find her.

hawand recognition

she went into surgery. The doctors had told him it was pulverized, that she would never hold a pen again. But now, seeing

too, when she was carried

even touch

The ambulance arrived quickly.

lift Sharon inside and climbed in after

as soon as they reached the

face was like stone, shadowed

And who dumped her at the

stiffened, then hurried

“Wait.”

Jensen stopped him suddenly.

from when Natalie was admitted, too. I want to see the footage from before she was taken

asked carefully, “Mr. Luke, should we notify the police about Ms.

is to leak word that Sharon’s hand was smashed. If anyone asks, we’ll say she fell

mind, the image of Natalie’s face came back-anguished, resentful, crushed beneath the weight of his command not to pursue

was

silenced you, forced you to endure that pain in silence-was this your

No.

It couldn’t be.

soft-hearted. She could never

But that fire…

clashed