When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 1 Leaving Jensen for Good

Chapter 1 Leaving Jensen for Good

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The dim yellow light mixed with the scent of burning incense, making the room feel thick with tension.

Wearing a sheer nightgown, Natalie Summers found herself pressed against the door. Jensen Luke’s hand

gripping her neck.

“Natalie, you're mine tonight.”

He leaned in. Jensen was 62", towering over Natalie, making her seem even more petite.

Before she could say anything, Jensen’s lips pressed against hers, taking her breath away.

Natalie tilted her head up and met the lust-filled depths of his eyes. His Adam's apple bobbed just inches from

her, and his scorching breath made her face flush and her body go weak.

It was the fifth anniversary of their relationship. Overflowing with love, she kissed him back.

The sound of tearing fabric and shallow breaths filled the room as the tension between them grew.

Just as they were about to becone, Jensen’s phone rang.

Interrupted at such a moment, his irritation was obvious, but he answered anyway.

Natalie, panting, caught a glimpse of the caller ID: it was Felix, Jensen's closest friend.

“Jensen, are you out of your mind? You-"

“Switching to Fracian. Now's not a good time.”

Jensen quickly changed languages.

There was a pause, then Felix spoke in fluent foreign speech: “You really went and got married to Sharon? What

the hell are you thinking? Five years ago, you got into that street race to save her and nearly died in the crash.

But Sharon? She ditched you and ran off overseas with another guy! She’s had boyfriend after boyfriend while

she was gone-she never cared about you! And now you've actually married her?”

Felix’s words automatically translated in Natalie’s mind into her native tongue.

Her eyes flew open.

The heat in her body still lingered, but her heart had plunged into an icy abyss.

Jensen hadn't noticed her reaction. His voice was cold and measured. “Sharon has cancer. She doesn’t have

long. Her final wish is to marry me, to be my wife. She said the person she owes the most in this life is me, and

she wants to end our first love story with a perfect ending. | can’t let her die with regrets.”

“And what about Natalie? After your crash, she was the one who never left your side, who cared for you day and

night. She gave you everything she had. You really think she deserves to find out she’s the other woman? How is

she supposed to live with that?”

Felix’s anger didn’t shake Jensen.

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“She won't find out,” he said coldly. “As long as everyone keeps it quiet, Natalie will never know. When Sharon’s

gone, I'll marry Natalie.”

“Do you seriously believe Sharon has cancer?”

That question pushed Jensen over the edge.

“Enough! | know what I'm doing.”

With that, he hung up.

He turned back to Natalie, ready to pick up where they left off-only for her to push him away.

“I don’t feel so well.”

Natalie wrapped her arms around herself, trembling slightly, her face pale as a sheet.

Jensen had no idea she'd spent the last six months secretly mastering three foreign languages—one of which

was Fracian. She’d never had the chance to use it-until tonight, when Jensen unknowingly shattered her heart

with it.

Seeing her like that, Jensen looked genuinely concerned.

“What's wrong? Do you wantto take you to the hospital?”

His concern didn’t seem fake-but Natalie's heart ached.

How could he care so deeply while secretly marrying someone else?

She was about to turn him down when his phone chimed again—this twith a distinctive WhatsApp

notification sound.

Jensen glanced at the screen. “Something's cup at the office. | need to take care of it right away. Try to rest.

If you still feel sick, call me-I'll have someone take you to the hospital.”

Natalie barely had tto nod before he was grabbing his clothes and walking out the door.

She watched his retreating figure, and the tears finally spilled down her cheeks.

She had seen it.

The message was from Sharon.

It read: “Jensen, I'm in pain. Please come.”

Natalie clenched her fists tight, her heart feeling as if a gaping hole had been torn through it.

Tears blurred her vision as memories she had tried so hard to bury cflooding back.

She had been switched at birth and raised by the Summers family, living a life of luxury until she turned

eighteen-when the real Summers daughter, Sharon, was found and brought home. From then on, Natalie's life

descended into hell.

Sharon believed Natalie had stolen eighteen years of her happiness and resented her to the core. She

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demanded Natalie be locked away in a dark, windowless basement.

That damp floor and moldy corner becNatalie's entire world.

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Sharon would often cdown with a twisted smile, whipping her with cruel delight. Each lash was a

punishment for the “sin” of being loved.

Her adoptive parents, who should have protected her, ignored her suffering to please their real daughter.

Night after night, Natalie curled up in the corner, shaking from pain, drowning in despair, swallowing her tears in

silence.

A year later, one evening, she seized a moment of carelessness from the guards and escaped the basement with

every ounce of strength she had.

Tattered and bruised, she didn’t make it far-she collapsed at the feet of a visiting guest: Jensen.

In that moment, Jensen was like a ray of light piercing her darkness. He took her away and nursed her back to

health.

Jensen had promised to protect her and that he would be her family now.

He knew about her past with the

Summers family, so he did highest to

shield iN from everséeirig them

again ‘And over the years, she fell for

him—deeper than she ever imagined.

Then one day, Jensen suddenly insisted on joining a street race. No one could talk him out of it.

By the tNatalie heard, he'd already crashed-critically injured and comatose, with doctors warning he might

never wake up.

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To save him, she poured her heart and soul into his recovery-day and night care, searching everywhere for

miracle doctors.

Finally, her efforts paid off.

She found an elusive healer known

for working miracles. But his price

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Thankfully, he pulled through.

Less than a year after recovering, Jensen took full control of Luke Corp and becits CEO.

He told her he'd marry her on the fifth anniversary of their relationship.

And yet, on that very day, he married Sharon instead.

Until now, Natalie had never once considered leaving Jensen.

But now that she knew he was married, she would never allow herself to be the other woman.

Especially not to Sharon.

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Wiping her tears, she pulled out her phone and dialed a number.

“I accept Grant International Holdings’ training offer in Murica. | want to leave Jensen. For good.”

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