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 to tuck

his face turned sullen the next instant, and he forcefully grabbed Jessica’s hair.

panic. “Matthew! I… I just

tightly, anger seething in his

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

Star’ wasn’t written

wrong, calling it The Brightest Flower’

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

The Brightest Star, was written and given to

fury in his voice. nearly scorching her to

Her nose tingled with soreness, and tears welled

and regret violently clashed within him, desperately seeking an outlet. “When you were impersonating Ashley, why weren’t you

her down

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to the ground!

for impersonating Ashley.

himself even

been unkind to Ashley, even venting his pain on

brother’s descent into darkness, Ashley

ignored Ashley’s efforts, considering them too

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

another way. Under the name

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

on the countless injustices and abuses Ashley had suffered within the Ramos

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

I owe Ashley?’

debt was too vast ever fully

pain, Matthew gasped for air like a

violently kicked Jessica on the ground and staggered. off in

out to the

he saw Ashley and Bryce walking away.

of nervousness, similar to the feeling. of encountering a long-lost

stealthily trailing behind the two, like a thief in the

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was fixed unblinkingly on

sacred air around her. Her skin, delicate

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

burned,

time he realized that his sister