When She Rose From the Ashes (Natalie and Jensen) novel Chapter 524

524 The Coded Message

“No, Mr. Jensen told me not to worry about him. He assured me he would come back safely. He even said you should keep an eye on your blood pressure,” Hansel relayed carefully.

Hearing those words, Loretta’s anxiety only deepened. How could she possibly remain calm? The knot in her stomach tightened with every passing second.

What if Rachel revealed the truth about Jensen’s parentage? The thought alone sent a chill down her spine.

Loretta had poured her heart and soul into raising Jensen as her own son. She had faced many trials, including the darkest days five years ago when Jensen was critically injured. At that moment, watching him lying motionless in the hospital bed, she had almost given up. But something inside her softened, a fierce maternal instinct that refused to let go.

Jensen was her son—no one could take that away.

She clenched her fists, her voice trembling but resolute. “Find Jensen. I don’t care what it takes. If I have to fight for him, I will. He is my son, and I will bring him back.”

Her desperation bordered on hysteria, her eyes wild with fear and determination.

Hansel was unsure why she was so distraught but assumed it was pure worry for Jensen’s safety. He didn’t want to argue and nodded in agreement, promising to follow her orders. Yet, in the back of his mind, he couldn’t shake Jensen’s earlier words.

Quickly, Hansel pulled up the registration number for the Luke family’s private jet. When the number didn’t match the one Jensen had mentioned, his suspicions grew stronger. He immediately searched for the jet number Jensen had given him.

To his frustration, Hansel found no records of any LN-380 jet registered in Ocean City.

Had Jensen made a mistake? Hansel tried to call him back, but the line was dead—unreachable.

“What now?” he muttered, feeling the weight of helplessness settle over him.

Just then, Hansel accidentally knocked over a photo frame resting on Jensen’s desk. It was a familiar frame, one that had once been displayed in the Grand Pavilion.

Inside was a picture of Jensen and Natalie, smiling together.

Hansel remembered how, after Natalie had broken up with Jensen at the Grand Pavilion, she had seen a photo of him with Sharon and torn it apart in anger.

This particular photo was different—it was one Jensen had recovered after searching through his phone and even repairing his old device. He had the negative developed and placed it carefully on his desk.

Hansel recalled that Jensen had once asked him to investigate why a photo of him and Natalie also included Sharon. He realized with a start that he had never given Jensen the results of that investigation.

As Hansel reached out instinctively to straighten the frame, a sudden thought struck him like a lightning bolt.

He froze in place, his mind racing.

If he remembered correctly, Miss Natalie’s birthday was March 8th.

Could LN-380 be a coded message, combining the initials of Jensen and Natalie’s surnames with a number significant to her?

Was Jensen trying to tell him to contact Natalie?

And was he signaling that he had been taken hostage?

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