When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 367 The Truth About Rachel

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Anna wept bitterly, her words dragging out the jagged pain of her past, but Baron’s face never softened.

“Get to the point.”

His cold eyes and the pressure radiating from him made her shiver. She knew if she tried to dance around it, he would kill her without hesitation.

“I’m saying it already!” she sobbed. “My parents learned I had dwarfism–that I’d always be like this. To them I was nothing but a disgrace and a burden. They didn’t want to waste money on

my me, so they lied, said they’d buy me something to eat, then abandoned me on the street. If aunt Rachel hadn’t found me, I’d have been sold off to traffickers. She gave me a second life.

“She was working as a maid in the Stone household back then. Because she once saved Mrs. Stone’s life, she was treated well and paid generously. My aunt never married, never had children. She raised me as her own, even hired help and tutors for me. But because of my height I was bullied endlessly at school, so she brought teachers to the house.

“When she realized I had a knack for computers, she found people to train me in hacking. She never forced me to do anything… until the accident with Jensen. When Natalie sought out Witch Doctor, my aunt finally called on me.”

voice faltered, her eyes glazing over at the memory. “She said I was small, hard to notice, and good enough to slip past security. All I had to do was tamper with Witch Doctor’s records–diagnosis and donation files–and she’d give me a fortune to travel the world. She raised me for

security, undone by this tiny woman

turned sharp. “Who gave you Witch Doctor’s

his true identity. Even Natalie hadn’t known. But somehow

woman into the hospital, let everyone think I was her daughter. I saw Witch Doctor enter the operating room. After the surgery, when he filed the records, I struck. He was exhausted–someone said Natalie had collapsed from post–op infection, so he rushed out.

now. After

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heard Natalie had collapsed, he rushed to her side, leaving the files barely

I locked those records in the cabinet?” His

“Yes.”

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