When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 113 The Banishment

Chapter 113 The Banishment

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“It wasn’t direct,” Finn admitted, “but Sharon met a branch member of the Gunn family overseas. He mocked her for giving up on Jensen, told her what a big figure he’d become. He asked if she regretted it. Sharon couldn’t stand the humiliation, so she came back determined to steal Jensen away. Even the excuse of her ‘late–stage cancer–that was given to her by him.”

Natalie lowered her head with a cold laugh.

Yes, there had been outside manipulation. But if Sharon had been a woman who knew her place, she wouldn’t have come back to snatch another woman’s man. And Jensen–if he’d truly loved her, no flimsy lie could have shaken him.

In the end, it wasn’t fate or schemes. It was simply that the love hadn’t been deep enough.

Shaking her head, Natalie said quietly, “Flies only gather on cracked eggs. Sharon and Jensen ending up together–maybe that’s their destiny. Finn was right about one thing. I loved too blindly. I was foolish.”

“Don’t say that about yourself.”

Baron’s tone was sharp, unable to bear hearing her demean herself.

But Natalie only smiled at him. “I’ll be fine. If I can face my mistakes honestly, my path forward will be steadier and longer.”

Shauna glanced at her, startled. She had always thought Natalie was fragile, a hothouse flower that needed Mr. Gunn’s protection. Now she realized how wrong she’d been.

Finn, too, looked at Natalie in a new light. Freed from the chains of love, she was calm, incisive, seeing truths deeper than most.

Baron, seeing her steady again, felt his own tension ease. His face, however, grew hard.

“Shauna, find out who that Gunn branch bastard is. I want him to suffer a fate worse than death.”

out to

done unforgivable things. I have no one left. Let my life

“You don’t want revenge?”

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question snapped Finn’s head up. His heart throbbed with longing. He wanted

was low. “There is a chance. The question is whether

Through fire or blades, I

his head. “I don’t need you in fire or blades. I need you to leave

Finn went rigid.

after rising step by step from a boy

Gunn… better you

I don’t break the law,” Baron

her eyes–if there was anyone who feared the law least, it

despair swallowing

returned. She saw his face, snorted, and kicked

gone to the

grimaced in pain. “What did dogs do to deserve

worse than a

here, who would follow you? Better to play

the Gunn family out. Pretend to side with