When She Rose From the Ashes (Natalie and Jensen) novel Chapter 112

Chapter 112 The Collapse

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“Finn, even if Phantom hadn’t gone to protect me, do you really think they would have spared

her?”

The answer struck him like a hammer. No–they wouldn’t.

Deep down, Finn knew the truth. He just couldn’t bear to admit that Phantom’s death had come because of him. So he had shoved all the blame onto Natalie.

Natalie saw the flicker in his eyes and knew he understood.

Baron exhaled slowly, relief passing through him at her composure. He clapped his hands. Shauna stepped inside.

At the sight of her, Finn froze. “You… weren’t you detained?”

“That was just to fool you.”

Shauna’s gaze was heavy with sorrow. “Finn, after everything we’ve gone through, how could you-” Her voice broke, words dying in her throat.

She had heard Natalie’s words from outside.

As an orphan herself, she understood the storm Finn had felt when he found his parents. Natalie had spoken the truth.

They had all lived bitterly, scraping survival from the edge of blades. No matter how hardened they became, there was always resentment toward the parents who had lost them, always the ache of wanting love that never came.

If not for that mistake, would their lives have been so hard?

And yet, despite all that anger, the yearning for a simple “I’m sorry” had never left. Shauna knew that if her parents ever stood before her and apologized, she would forgive them–even if it cost her life.

But Finn’s parents had never given him what he needed. His mother’s illness, his father’s selfishness-both had failed him.

The less he received, the more he chased it, until he had lost himself completely.

Shauna’s eyes glistened as she handed him a folder. “Look.”

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Fear coiled in Finn’s gut. His instincts screamed that what lay inside would destroy him. Yet his hands, beyond his control, took it.

Slowly, trembling, he opened it.

Photographs and documents spilled to the floor.

The images showed his parents butchered like animals, their blood staining the ground.

His vision blurred. Even with all his resentment, he had never wished them dead.

And now… he had betrayed his brothers, betrayed Baron, dragged Phantom and their unborn child to death–and his parents were gone all the same.

The dates on the documents crushed him.

The very day after he had agreed to “do one thing” for them, his parents had already been killed.

His sacrifice, his torment, his endless guilt–all for nothing.

“How… how could they?!” Finn’s voice cracked as madness twisted through him.

If everything he had done was meaningless, then what was the point of all this suffering?

His laughter and sobs tangled together in hysteria.

Baron instinctively pulled Natalie behind him, shielding her.

Her chest tightened as she looked on.

She had heard every word–about Yvonne, Phantom, Finn’s betrayal. She had wanted to see Yvonne’s body with her own eyes and had asked the nurse to bring her. She hadn’t expected to stumble into this truth.

Now she finally understood Finn’s hatred of her. It had never been baseless–it had been born from Phantom’s death.

But she couldn’t let him keep lashing at Baron. So she had stepped forward.

Still, Finn’s accusation echoed inside her.

He had called her Baron’s weakness.

Why? Why would a man like him be so bound to her?

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