When She Rose From the Ashes

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.

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

he had touched

was of his

would wash

his own skin just to

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suffocating frustration and helplessness

you hate

sound

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Jensen emerged, Sharon was

tore the sheets off the bed, everything she had touched, and dragged it all outside to

with alcohol and sprayed it down with freshener

And still-it felt dirty.

What now?

floor, knees against the cold tiles, eyes

was back. That bone-deep

slammed his head against the wall, again and again, as if the physical pain could drown

to see

Even just once.

to know she

there was no news. Nothing.

Hansel escorted Sharon back to the Summers

crumbled. Mr. Summers was out begging like a dog, and Mrs. Summers had been bedridden ever since, sick from anger

lonely hours, she found herself thinking more

home, Natalie had been the

absorbed every lesson on the first try. Especially her poise and manners. Whenever Mrs. Summers

Natalie stayed

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