When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 80 The Hidden Room

Chapter 80 The Hidden Room

“She’s outside.”

The moment Sean answered, Susie tore off like a little whirlwind.

Sean wrinkled his nose, jealous at once. “Slow down! You’ll trip! Baron isn’t going anywhere!”

“Don’t talk about Daddy like that!” Susie puffed her cheeks, then spotted Baron’s tall frame ahead.

“Daddy!”

She flung herself into his arms like a butterfly.

Baron bent quickly, catching her and sweeping her up in one effortless motion.

Her soft little face pressed against his cheek.

“Daddy, I missed you so much! Did you miss me?”

“Yes.”

Baron pinched her nose, smiling in a way few ever saw.

In that instant, he was neither Mr. Gunn nor the feared Witch Doctor-only a father.

Just a father.

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Sean, for once, didn’t fight for attention. On this island, they only had each other. When Baron was gone, Sean carried the burden of being “big brother,” even if he was only a few minutes older than Susie.

two together and quietly wandered over to where Baron’s

Same

to the butler. “Grandpa

“Yes,”

Sean’s eyes dimmed.

she look like? What had she gone through? Why

skin to save her?

his chest, heavy, But he couldn’t ask them in

It was suffocating.

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1:06 pm &

The

eat breakfast?” Sean

0:40

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the yacht, but it had been tasteless. Now, looking at the twins, he smiled. “Not yet. Butler, prepare breakfast. I’ll eat with

“Yes, sir.”

the lounge. She clung to him like a sparrow, chattering endlessly, as

quickly, and came back out, ears pricked. Hearing Susie’s voice still filling the downstairs, he turned down a

Toward the locked room.

they’d been forbidden

the butler

instincts screamed-Mommy’s

the

skin, then she must have suffered terribly. Sean

crept up to the door, checked downstairs-Baron was still laughing with Susie-and sprinkled a fine white

faintly

entered them

The lock

and shut the door behind