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.”

lifted his hand

turned sullen the next instant, and he forcefully grabbed

with panic. “Matthew! I… I

anger seething

encouraging words besides the lyrics! I was just testing you, and you

“The Brightest Star’ wasn’t written by you, was

the name wrong, calling it The Brightest

earlier. How could Jessica get the name wrong, especially for such meaningful, encouraging

written and

hair tightened, the raging fury in his voice.

Her nose tingled with soreness, and tears welled up.

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

her down forcefully, slamming her

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to the ground!

despised Jessica for impersonating Ashley.

hated himself

had been unkind to Ashley, even venting his pain on

into darkness, Ashley even wrote the lyrics, hoping to help

efforts, considering them too despicable to glance at.

lyrics to

find another way. Under the name Ash, she secretly continued to guide and support

heart ached intensely, his cheeks. streaked with bitter, salty

the countless injustices and abuses Ashley had

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

on earth do I owe Ashley?’

felt the debt was too

gasped for air like a fish.

the ground and staggered. off in the

to the parking

outside, he saw Ashley and Bryce

the feeling. of encountering a long-lost

found himself stealthily trailing behind the two, like a thief

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was fixed unblinkingly on

her in a glow, casting a sacred air around her. Her skin, delicate as the first snow of winter, shimmered with a fragile, crystal-like

and her eyes sparkled with tiny, scattered lights, like a galaxy spilling over, with all its stars captured in her gaze.

his eyes burned,

first time he realized that his sister was indeed beautiful.