Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

Chapter 93

Matthew suddenly glared at her with a frown.

“Snap!”

With a loud slap, he struck Jessica across the face..

Jessica was utterly stunned and covered her face with her hand.

“Matthew, how could you hit me?” She exclaimed..

The slap was so forceful that her face began to swell.

Jessica was already frustrated. She was on the show with Matthew today, hoping that after Matthew met Ash, she would be able to bond with the famous Ash herself.

But fate dealt her a harsh blow.

She had never expected Ashley to be Ash!

Watching Ashley being praised and admired by everyone, Jessica’s jealousy grew uncontrollably, her insides burning with rage.

Ashley, that despicable woman, always seemed better than her in every aspect!

During the two years since Ashley’s return to the Ramos Villa, she had been treated like an unwanted child, unloved by her family. It should. have been Jessica who was in the spotlight, receiving all the praise.

Now, everything had changed.

Jessica couldn’t accept it, nor could she bear it!

She covered her swollen face, and her mind grew increasingly sinister.

Jessica insinuated slyly. “Matthew, I know that finding out Ashley is Ash must have been a huge shock to you…

“Ashley is really something… Why didn’t she tell you earlier that she was Ash?”

Jessica’s words were undoubtedly fanning the flames.

Matthew, of course, knew what Jessica was implying and looked at her with a smirk.

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Feeling uneasy under his gaze, Jessica stammered, “Matthew, why are you looking at me like that?”

Matthew softened his expression, smiling more tenderly.

“Jessica, during those dark days when I was lost, you wrote a song, “The Brightest Star, to encourage me. Besides the lyrics, you said two more. lines to cheer me up. Do you remember what they were?*

Jessica clenched her fist upon hearing this. Forcing a smile, she stuttered. “Matthew, it’s been so long, I’ve forgotten.”

Matthew gently lifted his hand to tuck Jessica’s hair

face turned sullen the next instant, and

face turned pale, filled with panic. “Matthew! I… I

hair tightly, anger seething in his eyes, Matthew accused.

the lyrics! I was just testing you,

written by you,

wrong, calling it The Brightest

Jessica get the name wrong, especially for such

Star, was written and given to me by Ashley, wasn’t it!”

on Jessica’s hair tightened, the raging fury in his

Her nose tingled with soreness, and tears welled up.

Matthew’s anger and regret violently clashed within him, desperately seeking an outlet. “When you

hair, pulling her down forcefully,

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to the ground!

despised Jessica for

he hated himself even more!

he had been unkind to Ashley, even venting his pain

distressed over her brother’s descent into darkness, Ashley even wrote the lyrics,

disdainfully ignored Ashley’s efforts, considering them too despicable

offered to deliver Ashley’s lyrics to Matthew, only to brazenly claim them as

choice but to find another way. Under the name Ash, she secretly

the truth, Matthew’s heart ached intensely,

on the countless injustices and abuses Ashley had suffered

his hypocrisy. He had shamelessly accepted. Ash’s help while mercilessly mistreating Ashley.

on earth do I owe Ashley?’ Matthew wondered.

felt the debt was too vast ever fully to repay.

gasped for air like a fish. on the brink of

fit of rage, he violently kicked Jessica on the ground and staggered. off in the direction Ashley

to the parking lot

walked outside, he saw

of encountering a long-lost friend. He yearned to run over to Ashley, yet he couldn’t bring himself

he found himself stealthily trailing behind the two, like

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gaze was fixed unblinkingly on

a glow, casting a sacred air around her. Her skin, delicate as the first snow of winter, shimmered

and her eyes sparkled with tiny, scattered lights, like a galaxy spilling over, with all

his eyes burned, but he refused to

he realized that his