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.

he chased it, until he had

eyes glistened as she handed him a

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what lay inside would destroy him. Yet his hands, beyond his control, took

trembling, he opened

spilled to

like animals, their blood staining

his resentment, he had never

his brothers, betrayed Baron, dragged Phantom and their unborn child to death–and his

on the documents

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

torment, his endless guilt–all for

how could they?!” Finn’s voice

had done was meaningless, then what was

and sobs tangled together

Natalie behind him,

as she

see Yvonne’s body with her own eyes and had asked the nurse to bring her.

her. It had never been baseless–it had been born from Phantom’s

couldn’t let him keep lashing at Baron.

accusation echoed inside