When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 75

Chapter 75 Ashes and Regret

Chapter 75 Ashes and Regret

Sharon’s voice rang with sharp accusation.

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And though Jensen had already laid his heart bare to himself-already admitted he had once, briefly, been moved -he couldn’t bring himself to admit it to her face.

“You should leave.”

His voice was cold, final.

He turned to go, but as he passed Hansel, he said quietly, “Go to Finance. Have them give Sharon two hundred thousand. Compensation for the slap.”

“Yes, Mr. Luke.”

Hansel nodded, entirely unbothered. A slap for two hundred grand? He wasn’t complaining.

In fact, his mood even improved.

He turned to Sharon, tone cool and detached. “Ms. Summers, you have five minutes to dress. I’ll wait outside.”

“Get out!”

Sharon shrieked, feeling utterly humiliated. Slept with and discarded, disrespected by Jensen’s assistant-she felt like a fool.


Hansel didn’t bother responding. He simply walked out and closed the door behind him.

Jensen entered the guest bathroom and scrubbed himself down with a fury bordering on self-loathing.

He felt filthy.

Even if he had legally married Sharon, he’d never betrayed Natalie in body-until last night.

weakness, he thought Sharon would die soon.

he had

or not it was of his own will-it had

would wash

to scrape off his own skin

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Ashes

frustration and helplessness made his chest


hate me for

into the sound

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emerged, Sharon was

bed, everything she

villa with alcohol and sprayed it down with freshener until the air itself

And still-it felt dirty.

What now?

dropped to the floor, knees against

pain was back. That bone-deep ache, that maddening itch-it consumed

wall, again and again, as if the physical pain could

needed to see

Even just once.


she was out

Nothing. Not even her ashes

Sharon back to the Summers

had crumbled. Mr. Summers was out begging like a dog, and Mrs. Summers had been bedridden ever since, sick from anger and exhaustion-and without

her lonely hours, she found herself

had been

and manners. Whenever Mrs. Summers brought her out,

servants, Natalie stayed at her bedside through every night, afraid that any slip-up would worsen

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