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.

never

she hadn’t acted, Sam would have

her mind, but the

the floor. The warm, sticky red smeared across

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she saw Natalie hunched on the ground, pale and shaking, and for a moment she saw herself

too had once been like this–fragile, horrified, human. But for her son,

Sam’s corpse, bound

bright

herself not to scream as the sound of bodies hitting

the porcelain vial from her hand. She scattered the powder

“Hold your breath.”

a wet towel

of

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

realizing what

have the strength,” she stammered, still pretending

studied her, then