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.

because, in a moment of weakness, he thought Sharon would die soon. He figured after she passed, he’d still belong to

now he had touched

it was of his own will-it had

excuse would wash that

own skin just to

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Ashes and

frustration and helplessness made his


hate me for

into the sound of water. No answer

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emerged, Sharon

bed, everything she had touched, and dragged it all

with alcohol and sprayed it down

And still-it felt dirty.

What now?

knees against the cold

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

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

needed to see

Even just once.


to know she was

news. Nothing.

Sharon back to the

like a dog, and Mrs. Summers had been bedridden ever since, sick from anger and exhaustion-and

herself thinking more and

Natalie had been the

every lesson on the first try. Especially her poise and

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

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