When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 110 The Fracture

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Finn didn’t even flinch. In that instant when Baron’s blade had flown past him, he almost wished it had ended his life.

But Baron hadn’t finished him.

That hurt more than death itself.

“Mr. Gunn… kill me. I deserve it.”

“You do deserve it!”

Baron yanked a report from his jacket and hurled it at him.

“Read it.”

Finn’s trembling hands tore open the envelope. His eyes widened, horror filling them. Then blood spurted from his lips, but even as his body convulsed, he clutched the paper with desperate strength.

“Mr. Gunn… this isn’t real, right? Tell me this isn’t real!”

“It’s real.”

Baron’s voice was iron. “Phantom was pregnant. She left this behind before her mission. I was already preparing a wedding for you two. But you destroyed her. You destroyed your child.”

“No!”

his chest.

parents. He knew better than anyone the agony of being an orphan. With Phantom, he had sworn their child would never suffer what he had. He would love

yet Phantom had carried his child, and he hadn’t even

choices had killed them

Finn’s regret drowned

low, bitter. “Even if I had slept with Natalie, it was one night, nothing more. Did you really think I’d lose

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Chapter 110 The Fracture

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I knew… I knew you liked Natalie long before. If five years ago she hadn’t

“Shut up!”

kicked Finn across the floor, sending him sprawling in

by the collar, dragging him up, eyes burning scarlet. His

anything from you. Even my feelings–I never concealed them. You betrayed me, fine. But why involve Natalie? Do you know that if you hadn’t exposed my

“She would have!”

roar was broken, his eyes

Gunn, even if I hadn’t exposed you, Natalie’s fate was sealed. From the moment she fell for Jensen, that fickle bastard, she was doomed. She gave everything for him—that’s what killed her! Even without me, even without outside enemies, Sharon would

Tell me why, Mr. Gunn. Why do you love such a foolish woman? Why risk your life for her again and again? My brothers, my woman, my child are all dead because of her.

howl, like a beast trapped

Phantom’s true cause of death, and two, to push her into helping you kill Natalie?”