Novel & Cerita Up From The Ashes

But she wasn’t the girl Nathaniel had tried to destroy. No. That girl was dead. And in her place stood the storm he never saw coming. Everything that had happened in the last few years felt like a fever dream stitched together with pain. The fire. The betrayal. Damien pulling me back from the brink of death. The surgeries. The bandages. The new face. The therapy. And then the planning. So much planning. They thought I died... Well, let them keep thinking it. Ashen Group wasn’t just an empire—it was a weapon. My weapon. Born in the ashes of my old life. Fueled by betrayal and designed to give power back to women who had been crushed, controlled, discarded. Like me.

Ava closed her eyes, the image of the phoenix rising from the ashes flashing across her mind. Project Phoenix might have risen from the shadows, but she and Jackson, like mythical phoenixes themselves, were ready to rise from the ashes of their own lives and fight for what was right.

“He said he can only spare a few minutes.” Luther turned to me. “Just give me a moment, okay?” I gave a soft smile and nodded. “Sure.” He pressed a gentle kiss to my cheek, then walked off behind Cathy, who led the way like she had just solved a corporate crisis. I watched them go. Something in my chest shifted. Uneasy. I turned back toward the stage. “…we rise from failures, and we rebuild from ruins,” Asher was saying, voice warm, inviting applause. “This isn’t just a company relaunch, it’s a resurrection.”

Thinking that, she went to the diner in her complex and grabbed a sandwich and a coffee and looked for a Uber to set off for work. Mira is always someone who would think twice before spending a single cent. As she thought of how much she is going to spend on the Uber now, her heart ached. She wished she could make Nick pay for her taxi bills. Alas, it is good enough if he just paid her salary without cuts and so, she made a resolution to not wake up late ever again. After a 30min long journey, she finally reached the Asher group. The building stood tall before her,it is one of the tallest buildings within the business hub of Greenwood city. It is a glass building with a total of 69 floors.

After an hour later they finally reach their destination, they can't belive when they enter one of the posh area in their city. Normal person can't afford to live here. Even Alex and Win ,Type parents. Yes they all come from rich background but they still can't afford. Why the hell Ash work at backery if he is already loader. But again Win and Alex remember Allen words. Ash father wants to make him independent. He don't want him to depend anyone, not even himself and his money.

My blood flamed at hus touch. "What us wrong with you Ashley? Why the sudden change of attitude towards him? Are you..."

My chest burned. Milo. My baby. My joy. My shadow. Gone. I closed my eyes. And wished the sea had taken me, too. But it didn’t. And that meant something. It meant I was still here. Which meant Ethan and Sienna hadn’t finished the job. Which meant I still had something they didn’t expect me to have. Time. And vengeance. Because ashes don’t bleed. But they remember how to burn.

God help her, she did. And love in a house built on ashes was the most dangerous fire of all.

“Don't you get it darling? You caused us elites a lot of trouble and we're going to make you pay, and it's going to hurt…very, very badly.” I burst into tears, my only reaction at that moment, I looked up at their sneering faces as they laughed at me. They looked like monsters closing in on me, leading their sacrifice to the altar. Sasha kept their promise and that night, they broke me in multiple ways. Everyone I ever thought was on my side had turned on me, in the end, I was alone…Sasha, Layla, Peter…even him, he was part of this. As I went through hell, my mind automatically flitted back to the beginning, to how it all started.

"Please don't do it... Please, listen!" She grabbed his hands and he smirked. "I'll do anything you say... Anything you want but don't do it... Please, don't!" Egon pulled out the lighter from his pocket and she shook her head furiously. "Egon, please... Don't!..." She fell on her knees in front of him but he didn't show any mercy. He tossed the lighter in the direction of the house, and it fired up. Emerald screamed at the top of her lungs when her house turned into ashes.