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 an

“Yes, Mr. Luke.”

and

Sharon’s injury with

then it meant only one thing-Natalie might still be

him with

he would find her.

hawand recognition

hand 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,

Natalie looked like this, too, when she was carried

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

The ambulance arrived quickly.

Sharon inside and climbed

was rushed into emergency surgery as soon as

like stone, shadowed and

was already hospitalized. Who attacked her? And who dumped her at the Grand Pavilion?

stiffened, then hurried

“Wait.”

Jensen stopped him suddenly.

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

“Mr. Luke, should we notify the police about

Sharon’s hand was smashed. If anyone asks, we’ll say she

the image of Natalie’s face came back-anguished, resentful,

was it

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

No.

It couldn’t be.

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

But that fire…

voices clashed inside