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.

all because, in a moment of weakness, he thought Sharon would die soon. He

he

was of

excuse would wash

his own skin just to

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Ashes

helplessness made his chest


would you hate me for

sound of water. No answer

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Jensen emerged,

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

he disinfected the entire villa with alcohol and sprayed it down with freshener until

And still-it felt dirty.

What now?

floor, knees against the cold tiles,

pain was back. That bone-deep ache,

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

to

Even just once.


to know she was out

there was no news. Nothing. Not even

Hansel escorted Sharon back

family 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 anyone to

herself thinking more and more

when Sharon wasn’t home, Natalie had

poise and

when Mrs. Summers fell ill, despite the house being full of servants, Natalie stayed at her bedside through every night, afraid

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