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.”

hand to tuck Jessica’s hair behind her

face turned sullen the next instant, and he

panic. “Matthew! I…

anger seething in his eyes,

There were no encouraging words besides the lyrics! I was just testing you, and you

Star’ wasn’t written by you,

the name wrong, calling it The Brightest

get the name wrong, especially for

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

fury in

with soreness, and

within him, desperately seeking an outlet. “When you were impersonating

hair, pulling her down

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to the ground!

despised Jessica for impersonating Ashley.

himself even

to Ashley, even venting his pain on her.

into darkness, Ashley even wrote the lyrics,

ignored Ashley’s efforts, considering them too

for Jessica. She offered to deliver Ashley’s lyrics to Matthew, only to brazenly claim them

Under the name Ash, she secretly continued to guide and support Matthew.

realizing the truth, Matthew’s heart ached intensely, his cheeks. streaked with bitter, salty

reflected on the countless injustices and abuses Ashley had suffered

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

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debt was too vast ever fully to repay.

his chest in agonizing pain, Matthew gasped for air

the ground and

to

he saw Ashley

long-lost friend. He yearned to run over to Ashley, yet

he found himself stealthily trailing behind the two, like a

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gaze was fixed unblinkingly on

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

lights, like a galaxy spilling

until his eyes burned, but he refused to

the first time he realized that his sister was