When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 112 The Collapse

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“Finn, even if Phantom hadn’t gone to protect me, do you really think they would have spared

her?”

The answer struck him like a hammer. No–they wouldn’t.

Deep down, Finn knew the truth. He just couldn’t bear to admit that Phantom’s death had come because of him. So he had shoved all the blame onto Natalie.

Natalie saw the flicker in his eyes and knew he understood.

Baron exhaled slowly, relief passing through him at her composure. He clapped his hands. Shauna stepped inside.

At the sight of her, Finn froze. “You… weren’t you detained?”

“That was just to fool you.”

Shauna’s gaze was heavy with sorrow. “Finn, after everything we’ve gone through, how could you-” Her voice broke, words dying in her throat.

She had heard Natalie’s words from outside.

As an orphan herself, she understood the storm Finn had felt when he found his parents. Natalie had spoken the truth.

They had all lived bitterly, scraping survival from the edge of blades. No matter how hardened they became, there was always resentment toward the parents who had lost them, always the ache of wanting love that never came.

If not for that mistake, would their lives have been so hard?

And yet, despite all that anger, the yearning for a simple “I’m sorry” had never left. Shauna knew that if her parents ever stood before her and apologized, she would forgive them–even if it cost her life.

Finn’s parents had never given him what he needed. His mother’s illness, his father’s selfishness-both had

the more he chased it,

as she

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lay inside would

he

and documents spilled

like animals, their blood

with all his resentment,

had betrayed his brothers, betrayed Baron, dragged Phantom and their unborn child to death–and his parents were gone all

dates on the

“do one thing” for them, his parents had already been

his endless guilt–all

Finn’s voice cracked as madness twisted through

done was meaningless, then what was the point of all this

sobs tangled

instinctively pulled Natalie behind him,

as

Yvonne’s body with her own eyes and had asked the nurse to bring her. She hadn’t expected to

had

lashing at Baron. So she had

Finn’s accusation echoed