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.

had never given him what he needed.

less he received, the more he chased it, until

as she

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lay inside would destroy him. Yet his hands, beyond

he

spilled

like

Even with all his resentment, he had never wished them

Baron, dragged Phantom and their unborn child to

the documents

after he had agreed to “do one thing” for them, his parents

sacrifice, his torment, his endless

voice cracked as

everything he had done was meaningless, then what was the

and sobs tangled together in

Natalie behind him, shielding

as she looked

with her own eyes and had asked the nurse to bring her. She

her. It had never been baseless–it had been

him keep lashing at

Finn’s accusation echoed