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.

the two together and quietly wandered over to where Baron’s gift

new. Same trinkets as

the butler. “Grandpa

“Yes,”

Sean’s eyes dimmed.

she look like? What had she gone through?

skin to save her?

heavy, But

It was suffocating.

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Now, looking at the twins, he smiled. “Not

“Yes, sir.”

into the lounge. She clung to him like a sparrow, chattering endlessly, as though half a month apart had been an

out, ears pricked.

Toward the locked room.

they’d been

butler had no

instincts screamed-Mommy’s

he’d studied the lock. Today,

she needed his skin, then she must have suffered terribly. Sean couldn’t

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

glowed faintly on

entered them

lock clicked

inside and shut the door behind