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.”

you?” Matthew gently lifted his hand to tuck Jessica’s hair behind

face turned sullen the next instant, and he forcefully

panic. “Matthew! I… I just forgot, and that’s all!”

anger seething in his

lyrics! I was just testing you, and you gave yourself away right

wasn’t written by you,

why you got the name wrong, calling it The Brightest

How could Jessica get the name wrong, especially for

The Brightest Star, was written and given to me

hair tightened, the raging fury in his voice.

and

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

Jessica’s hair, pulling her down

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to the ground!

for

hated himself even

to Ashley, even

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

Ashley’s efforts, considering them too

offered to deliver Ashley’s lyrics to Matthew,

the name Ash, she

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

countless injustices and abuses Ashley had suffered within the

also acknowledged his hypocrisy. He had shamelessly accepted.

I owe Ashley?’ Matthew wondered.

was too vast ever fully to

for air like a fish. on

violently kicked Jessica on the

to

he saw Ashley and Bryce walking away.

the feeling. of encountering a long-lost friend. He yearned to run over

found himself stealthily trailing behind the two, like a thief in the shadows.

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was fixed unblinkingly on Ashley’s

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

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

burned, but he refused

was the first time he realized that