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.

Sharon would die soon. He figured after she

he had touched

it was of his own

excuse would wash that

to scrape off his own skin just to feel

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75 Ashes

and helplessness made his


hate me for

into the sound of

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Jensen emerged,

bed, everything she had touched, and dragged

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

And still-it felt dirty.

What now?

the floor, knees against the

was back. That bone-deep ache, that

his head against the wall, again and again, as if the

needed to

Even just once.


she was

no news. Nothing. Not even her

Hansel escorted Sharon back to

dog, and Mrs. Summers had been bedridden ever since, sick from anger and exhaustion-and without anyone to

lonely hours, she found herself thinking more

had been the daughter anyone

intelligent-she absorbed every lesson on the first try. Especially her poise and manners.

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

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