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

Same trinkets as

to the butler. “Grandpa Butler… did Daddy

“Yes,”

Sean’s eyes dimmed.

What had she gone through? Why

skin to save her?

heavy, But he couldn’t ask them in

It was suffocating.

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1:06 pm &

The

you eat breakfast?” Sean

0:40

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He had nibbled on something aboard the yacht, but it had been tasteless. Now, looking at the twins, he smiled.

“Yes, sir.”

like a sparrow, chattering endlessly, as though half a month apart had been an

didn’t join them. He slipped away to his room, showered quickly, and came back out, ears pricked. Hearing Susie’s voice still filling

Toward the locked room.

they’d been forbidden from

the butler had no

screamed-Mommy’s secret was

the lock. Today, he

they’d see Mommy soon. But if she needed his skin, then she must

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

glowed faintly

them in

The lock

and shut the door