When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 384 A Fabricated Escape

Chapter 384 A Fabricated Escape

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“Alright, let’s move. I’ll handle Sharon. You clean up here. Do you still have any strength left?”

Natalie’s strength had already returned, but she lowered her eyes and answered weakly, “I used everything carlier. Can you give me some antidote?”

“I don’t have any. Figure it out yourself.”

Beth left without another word.

Natalie knew that wasn’t true. Beth must have had the antidote, but she wasn’t about to hand it over. Not when there was the risk she might try to escape.

And truth be told, if that message hadn’t been sent out, Natalie would have taken her chances with the sea–even if survival was nearly impossible.

Better to gamble for life than wait for certain death.

But she also knew Beth would never leave a living witness. Sharon’s fate was proof of that. Out here in the open sea, countless bodies must have already been fed to the waves. With sharks prowling these waters, Natalie had no illusions of making it to safety alive.

So for now, she had to bide her time.

Slowly, she pulled back the blood–soaked blanket covering Sam.

Sam’s bulging, lifeless eyes stared back, and Natalie nearly screamed.

She clamped a hand over her mouth, gasping silently, her chest heaving as if invisible fingers were wrapped around her throat.

Her

eyes

burned.

had never wanted

hadn’t acted, Sam would have

self–defense. She repeated it in her mind, but the

Sam’s face again and used the rest of the blanket to wipe up the blood on the floor. The warm, sticky red smeared across

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ground, pale and shaking, and for a

this–fragile, horrified, human. But for her son, she had taken

Sharon’s limp body next to Sam’s corpse, bound them together with the blanket, and

bright streaks

hard, forcing herself not to scream as the sound of bodies hitting the

before snatching the porcelain vial from her hand. She scattered the

“Hold your breath.”

pressing a wet towel tight over

didn’t notice her extra caution. Within seconds, the metallic tang of blood dissolved from

“It’s time. I’ll go call the others. Use that

froze, immediately realizing what Beth

have the strength,” she stammered, still

studied her, then nodded.