When She Rose From the Ashes

Chapter 8 So You Really Want to Do This

Chapter 8 So You Really Want to Do This

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Natalie stared at Jensen's strikingly handsface-now laced with suppressed warnings-and for the first time,

the filter of infatuation she'd wrapped around him for years shattered completely.

Only now did she realize that Jensen... really wasn't all that.

All the pain, sacrifice, and desperate effort she poured out for him during his injury five years ago-she might as

well have thrown it all to the dogs.

Her voice was hoarse, but her gaze never wavered.

“I'm not causing a scene, Mr. Luke. | am the real Sunny.”

Gasps rippled through the room.

“What? She’s Sunny?”

“But didn’t Mr. Luke say it was Sharon?”

Sharon's hatred finally boiled over. She couldn't hide it anymore.

She stormed out from behind Jensen and pointed directly at Natalie.

“Shut your damn mouth! Natalie, are you really that desperate? How dare you lie like this? Jensen is the only one

who knows Sunny’s true identity. Do you seriously think he'd back you up?”

Jensen's stare drilled into Natalie. A wave of unease swept through him.

She said it.

She actually said it-right here, in front of everyone.

Didn't she understand what he was trying to tell her?

She was talented. With time, she could make a nfor herself. Why was she insisting on snatching this title

from Sharon right now?

His patience snapped. He strode forward, grabbed Natalie's wrist, and hissed, “Cwith me!”

“Let go!”

Once upon a time, Natalie would have done anything for Jensen to hold her like this in public. It would've meant

everything. But now, all she felt was bitter disgust.

He wasn’t reaching for her. He was just trying to protect Sharon.

She struggled, but she wasn’t strong enough to break free.

Jensen tightened his grip and tried to drag her away.

That's when the suited man stepped in.

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His faded tattoo flashed as he moved.

“Mr. Luke, Ms. Summers just told you to let go. Shouldn't a man behave like a gentleman?”

His hand locked around Jensen’s wrist with enough pressure to make bones groan.

Jensen winced. The pain was sharp and real-he had no choice but to let Natalie go.

She immediately stepped back, putting distance between them.

But the man didn’t release Jensen’s wrist.

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Their standoff electrified the air-Jensen’s fury clashing with the stranger's icy restraint, evenly matched.

“Who the hell are you? Don’t makehave you thrown out.”.

“You're welcto try.”

Jensen's glare burned with rage. But the man’s eyes, cold as a frozen lake, held a silent fire-like a fuse already

lit, just waiting to explode.

Natalie didn’t know who the man was, but she wasn’t here to waste time.

She reached for her bracelet again.

The screen lit up.

Jensen, this is the Rise series | designed to help you secure your place at Luke Corp. Look at the sketches.”

in the video, Natalie handed Jensen a folder. Her smile was bright and hopeful, her eyes filled with love- he

portrait of a girl who would give everything for the man she adored.

ensen wrapped her in a hug.

Natalie, thank you. This line is going to launch us to a whole new level.”

Then can my designer nbe Sunny? | remember you said your favorite book had a character named Sunny,

Jensen... | want to be your Sunny.”

Natalie's radiant smile lit up the sunlight around her.

Okay. From now on, you're Sunny. Natalie, one day I'll make the world recognize your talent. And when hat day

comes, I'll give you the grandest wedding ever-drums, firecrackers, everything.”

ensen’s eyes were full of love. They looked just like any other couple lost in first love.

The video continued.

Natalie, buried in her sketchbooks, drawing every design herself-from concept, to research, to detail work. She

used lilies as a base motif, embedding a faint watermark on every design with a special method.

Then the footage shifted-Jensen personally signing off on her sketches, ordering their production.

The crowd turned toward Jensen and Sharon with stunned, questioning eyes.

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Sharon was on the verge of a breakdown.

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“Lies! All lies! You faked all of this! You're nothing but trash our family threw away. How could you possibly be

Sunny?

Even Jensen didn’t expect Natalie to go this far today.

His eyes turned cold as he looked at her.

“Natalie so this is what you want?”

“I just want what's mine.

She met his gaze head-on, though inside, it felt like a hole had been carved in her chest-raw and bleeding.

Jensen sneered.

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He shoved her aside and rushed toward Sharon.

Sharon clung to his arm the moment he reached her.

“Jensen, she’s lying, right? She’s not really Sunny, right?”

“Of course she’s not.”

Jensen didn’t hesitate.

Natalie felt like ice water had been dumped over her head.

Five years ago, Jensen had been her salvation-her only light in the darkness.

Now, for Sharon's sake, he shattered that light himself and cast her back into the abyss.

So this was the man she had loved for five years.

A bitter taste rose in her throat, but she forced it back down.

Then she played one more video-from her bracelet-captured from the Alexa smart speaker in the living

room.

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Everything she did after that was to prove she was worthy of standing beside him as the president of Luke Corp.

She didn’t owe him anything.

The video played. And the room fell into stunned silence.

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Everyone heard it. Word for word.

Even Sharon paled. Even Jensen froze. He spun around, stunned, and glared at Natalie.“You were spying on me?”