When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 228

Chapter 228 Natalie Hangs Up Fast

Jensen froze for a moment. Natalie had blocked me? How could that be?

Refusing to believe it, he searched for her WhatsApp account, but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t find it.

Panic tightened in his chest.

“Give me your phone,” he ordered the butler.

The butler didn’t understand why, but still handed it over.

Jensen dialed the number from memory, but the call didn’t go through; then he remembered -Natalie had changed her number.

Last time, he had only gotten it because Hansel had tracked it down for him.

Staring at the unfamiliar digits on the screen, Jensen felt a twist of bitterness.

Natalie had always been sentimental.

She had stayed with him for five years without ever changing her number–because that number was tied to the date they had first met.

And now she had even given that up? His throat worked as he swallowed, an ache rising out of nowhere.

He dialed her new number.

Natalie was just finishing the last strokes of her design when her phone rang. Without looking, she swiped to answer.


“Who is this?”

Hearing her voice made Jensen’s eyes sting.

“Natalie, it’s me.”

brows pinched together. Didn’t I block him

ID, she saw it was

“What do you want?”

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chat logs had thoroughly disgusted her; she didn’t even want to speak to

tone and rushed to say,

do with me? If something happened, call the police, I can’t help you

Natalie ended the call.

droning busy signal rang in Jensen’s ears, making him feel sick and

does Natalie sound so arrogant with you now? Was all that gentle sweetness before just


“Shut up!”

shot her a glare and shoved the phone back at

say one more bad word

he strode

car pulled up in front

discuss the matter of

glasses perched on his nose; one look, and it was clear

Jensen’s brow furrowed.

knew about the chat

into contacting him so they could reminisce about their past, maybe soften her feelings toward

A crushing weight pressed on his chest until

My mother’s gone

He sidestepped the issue.


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wasn’t going away anyway. Mr. Baron’s instruction was to first see what

and drove straight

beating yesterday, had been in a panic–terrified something might happen to the

and nurses.

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