Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

Chapter 47

Chapter 47

As soon as Ashley heard Jeremy’s voice, she immediately frowned in disgust.

Jeremy ran up to her, and his eyes were filled with remorse and guilt. His lips trembled, and so was his voice. “Ashley, I’m so sorry. I made an awful mistake…”

Upon hearing Jeremy’s words, Joseph looked at him with disdain and sneered, “Now you realize you were wrong? What took you so long?”

Jeremy’s face was filled with anguish. “I was deceived by Jessica. I didn’t know it was you who saved me back then. If I had known…”

Joseph’s expression of disdain deepened at Jeremy’s words.

He first glanced at Ashley, who looked thoroughly disgusted with Jeremy.

Then, Joseph couldn’t hold back any longer and ruthlessly retorted,

“So, you finally realize that Jessica deceived you? Tell me, how did she manage to fool you? Oh, right! Jessica just casually made up a lie, and you believed it without even verifying it. You didn’t even listen to Ashley’s explanation. I’m afraid you’ve never truly considered Ashley as your family. Ashley is your biological sister! Why can’t you even trust her?”

Jeremy was left speechless, blocked by Joseph’s accusations.

He couldn’t bear to argue because, in the past, he had never trusted Ashley, not even a bit.

He also had never treated her as family.

If Jeremy had shown even a single bit of trust in Ashley, he wouldn’t have easily believed Jessica’s one–sided story..

In the end, it was his failure to fulfill the responsibilities of being an older brother.

Ashley didn’t want to talk to Jeremy and tried to leave with Joseph.

“Ashley!” Jeremy exclaimed, blocking her way

“I was wrong. I shouldn’t have treated you so poorly.”

Listening to his belated apology, Ashley only felt indifferent, as if Jeremy’s words meant nothing to

her.

Jeremy looked at his biological sister, full of self–reproach, with a mind full of words he wanted to say, apologies he wanted to express, and an acknowledgment of his past mistakes. But he hesitated on how to begin.

at Ashley and then at Jeremy.

he didn’t want to interfere

However, he just stayed nearby in

voice

cold attitude, but he knew he deserved it. After all, it was all his fault. “Ashley,

the one who risked everything to save me. You are my

all my fault for being blind and neglectful. I never fulfilled my

fault. I shouldn’t have treated you like

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expression,

his

you admit you were wrong now, does that erase all the physical and verbal abuse I was subjected to in

spot upon hearing such heartfelt apologies. She would

expectations for the Ramos family. She

Jeremy felt as if a

asked himself, ‘Can acknowledging my mistakes erase all the abuse and insults I subjected Ashley to before?”

could never forget how he had treated Ashley in the

it made him feel tortured and remorseful, suffocating his chest

first brought Ashley back to the

their approval, she sacrificed her true self. She became submissive, always accommodating, and

everyone.

for family and her desire for recognition from the Ramos

she received no ounce of familial

how he had

heart and trying to steal Jessica’s position as the Ramos family heiress. Furthermore, Jeremy claimed that Ashley wasn’t worthy of

to verbal abuse, he

baulted her, including hitting her with his belt

he had mistreated his own sister struck

his hand and slapped

I couldn’t believe I used to treat

own sister? I’m such

hit

in his eyes, Jeremy slapped himself again, begging

horizon, her expression calm and undisturbed. She looked at Jeremy and said, “Jeremy, I

hammer had struck his heart, and

she regretted saving him.

extremely disappointed in him to have said something