When She Rose From the Ashes (Natalie and Jensen) novel Chapter 141

Chapter 141 The Exploding Notebook

Chapter 141 The Exploding Notebook

Marrying him–she might actually be happy.

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The courthouse visit was swift. With Baron’s wealth smoothing every step, they walked straight in and walked out with marriage certificates in hand, no waiting required.

Natalie stared down at the little red booklet in her palm, dazed. Married? Just like that?

Baron, terrified she might rethink it, plucked the certificate from her grasp. “You spend all day using your brain on designs. Let me handle things like keeping track of important documents.” He tucked both booklets safely away, snapped a photo, and immediately posted it to his social feed.

The excitement in his eyes was contagious. Natalie reached out, lacing her fingers through his. Baron nearly burst with joy, his eyes lighting like twin stars.

While he reveled in triumph, Jensen’s world was collapsing.

Hansel had finally managed to get Jensen’s phone functioning again, but when Jensen scrolled through its contents, his face drained of color. The contract–the ironclad authorization agreement binding all of Sunny’s designs to him—was gone.

“What’s going on?” He clawed through every folder, frantic. “There was a contract in here. Where is it? Can you recover it?”

The hacker examined the device and shook his head. “No. It’s been destroyed. Completely.”

At the same time, word arrived from the company: the tender baseline data for several bids had leaked, and clients were demanding updated proposals.

Jensen’s temples pounded. “Hansel, get R&D to redo everything. Overtime pay, double it if you have to.”

“Yes, sir.” Hansel hesitated. “Don’t you want to come to the office yourself?”

“I have other matters.”

Jensen grabbed his coat and bolted out the door, thoughts racing.

Why had his phone been targeted? Why that one contract erased, when all his other files remained untouched?

And why had his access to Natalie’s cloud drive suddenly been blocked?

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Chapter 141 The Exploding Notebook

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A chilling realization crept into his chest. Only Natalie would care about that contract. Only Natalie would fight to reclaim her designs.

Which meant she was alive.

His heart pounded with savage exhilaration. Five years of silence, five years of believing she had died in flames–and she had survived.

He needed proof. One look at her old laptop would tell him everything.

Driving like a madman, Jensen tore through red lights until he reached Grand Pavilion. He stormed inside, spotted the laptop on the table, and snatched it up. Hands shaking, he flipped it open.

A sharp bang cracked through the air.

The machine detonated in his lap.

Jensen screamed as fire and shrapnel burst outward, his hand catching the brunt of it. Pain seared through him–when he looked down, a finger was gone, blasted clean away.

Blood gushed between his clenched knuckles as he staggered, shrieking for an ambulance. His eyes, burning red with fury, narrowed to slits.

“Natalie… do you hate me so much you’d rather kill me?”

Trembling, he remembered. He had bought that notebook for her five years ago, her first birthday gift after he brought her into his home. She had promised she would use it until the end of time.

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