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

“Mr. Gunn, punish me. I’ve done unforgivable things. I have no one left. Let my life pay for

“You don’t want revenge?”

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question snapped Finn’s head up. His heart throbbed with longing. He wanted nothing more than vengeance. But would Mr. Gunn give

chance. The

fire or

in fire or blades. I need you to leave the organization -and for me

Finn went rigid.

step from a boy at Baron’s side?

you kill me

is illegal. I don’t break the law,”

Natalie nearly rolled her eyes–if there was anyone who feared

slumped, despair swallowing

returned. She saw his face,

brain gone to the

did

than a

brothers. If you stay here, who would follow you? Better to play along–leave the organization, let Mr. Gunn issue a kill order. What choice will

seek the Gunn family