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.

now. Call

“Yes, Mr. Luke.”

up and ran

see Sharon’s injury with

Natalie’s, then it meant only

him with

Natalie lived, he would find her. He had

hawand recognition

had been destroyed, he hadn’t seen it before she went into surgery. The doctors had told him it was pulverized, that she would never hold a pen again. But now, seeing Sharon’s wrecked hand, his chest

like this, too,

as he stood frozen, afraid to even touch Sharon, terrified his fingers might destroy what was

The ambulance arrived quickly.

lift Sharon inside and climbed

surgery as soon as they

face was like stone, shadowed

hospitalized. Who attacked her? And who dumped her at the Grand Pavilion? I want the full

then hurried off

“Wait.”

Jensen stopped him suddenly.

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

“Mr. Luke, should we

that Sharon’s hand was smashed. If anyone asks, we’ll say she fell and broke

came back-anguished, resentful, crushed beneath the weight of his command not to

it her? Natalie, was it you

silenced you, forced you to endure that pain

No.

It couldn’t be.

kind, too gentle, too soft-hearted. She could never have done something

But that fire…

voices clashed