When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 208

t are you laughing at?”

Jensen’s brows knit tightly; irritation churned in his chest.

Sharon shoved Hansel aside and strode in.

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“What? You can’t stand the sight of me anymore? Are you already thinking about sending me overseas to die, so you and Natalie can finally live happily ever after?”

Her eyes locked coldly on Jensen.

His annoyance deepened.

“Don’t start, Sharon. You know better than anyone why I married you.”

“But can you really swear on your conscience that when you put that ring on me, there wasn’t a single other thought in your heart?”

Her voice rose, sharp and grating.

“Jensen, wasn’t my leaving back then a regret for you? Love you couldn’t have? Maybe it wasn’t even love–maybe it was just that you never got me. So when I came back this time, sick and dying, and said I wanted to marry you, you agreed. Tell me honestly–was it really all for me?”

Her fists clenched tight.

She truly had wanted to build a life with this man.

once saved his life. With him, things should have


your greatest regret. Now that you’re married to me, you’re devastated you didn’t end up with her. Are men always restless over what they can’t have? Can’t you just be content? You’re my husband now! Yet you won’t touch me, won’t even speak to me, and you had me locked away. Is that how you treat a wife? Do you really think Natalie would admire you

do you think

his face and thrown it to the floor for him to trample on. Jensen’s expression turned dark, murderous, as though he could kill her right

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wedding night. If not for you, she would already be my wife. And you–always surrounded by men, tainted goods–and you

words cut like

had braced herself, she had never imagined he would speak

“Jensen, you bastard!”

and slapped


stinging burn on his cheek shot straight to his

more he realized what a fool he had been. If not for that old debt she held over me, how could I have

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me? You were flirting and entertaining men back then—more of them than I could count. Yes, you saved me, and out of gratitude I agreed to marry you, to give you closure in

the past days, he had pieced it

gotten married in secret, discreet to the point of pulling strings at City Hall. Natalie barely left the house, how could she possibly have known?

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