Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

Chapter 197

The fireplace in the igloo was burning, snow was falling outside the window, and elk were walking in the pine forest not far away.

It was a forest wonderland-like place.

And Ashley heard Valentin say he liked her at such a place.

Her pupils shrank violently, and her mind went blank. Her hands and feet were frozen, not knowing what reaction to give.

Until a moment later, Valentin’s magnetic voice slowly brought her consciousness back.

Valentin’s voice was soft and affectionate, like the whisper between lovers, but with a hint of astringency.

“I know that you always reject suitors decisively. What’s more, you hated me so much when you were a child.

“You heard that I have someone I’ve liked for many years. In order to cover this up and prevent you from rejecting me, I can just name someone to get over it.

“But I don’t want you to misunderstand.”

Speaking of this, he paused momentarily and looked at her deeply as if all the beautiful scenes in the world were not as good as hers.

He continued, “Ashley, it’s just you. The only person I’ve liked for so many years is you.”

Ashley’s eyelashes blinked unconsciously.

“Valentin, you…”

Ashley stuttered for a moment, and her mind seemed to be filled with a

it out.

bunch of tangled white clouds. She couldn’t figure

She thought, ‘I’m the one Valentin has liked for over ten years. Valentin liked me a long time ago.

‘He and I were close at first when we were kids. But when we grew up, we often fell out and sometimes quarreled. How could he possibly like me?

“Especially when we fell out, Valentin blocked me in my room when he heard me say I liked Kevin, my classmate. His eyes were

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shocking, and he asked me if I was out of my mind to like Kevin. Wait a moment!’

Ashley then reacted, thinking. ‘Was he jealous?’

Shocked, Ashley recalled it carefully.

In the beginning, she and Valentin were very close. They had been engaged since they were kids by both of their grandfathers. Then, when they got a little older and realized what the betrothal meant, the more she looked at Valentin, the more awkward she became.

After that, Ashley didn’t want to get too close to Valentin, preferring to find other friends of her age to play with. That was when the two started. to fall out and even quarrel.

Valentin’s attitude towards her was especially gloomy and unpredictable when he saw her playing with the neighbor’s children.

Valentin was deliberately targeting her

turned out that….

been

always known, blinking her moist eyes blankly at him.

deny it. “Yes.”

didn’t know at that time what he’d done wrong to be alienated from

yet she smiled

anger and jealousy when he heard Ashley say

he couldn’t change the fact that Ashley hated

I thought the engagement was weird and I wanted to

suddenly

seemed to be

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realized that Valentin had carried her to sit on his lap at some point, and she

find

poked his chest with her finger. “Are you blind?

me?”

“Don’t talk about

the confession you

reject me.” Valentin put his arm around her waist and stroked the

‘I can’t even say that?’

like this. Forget it. I won’t

let out

why. “Why are you

intimate that they could feel each

better outcome than he had expected.

every possibility Valentin envisioned, Ashley would not hesitate to reject his confession.

she said softly, “You’re happy with that? Then you’re asking too little.”

ask for so little, agree to my

think about it”

sudden that her mind was still cluttered with thoughts

how.

but she had

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had been silently fond

she not

it was really sudden and unexpected.

treat his love of more than ten years in a hazy manner.

such, she wanted to think about it to treat him properly and see her

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home the next day.

sooner had they returned to Kingsley Villa than they saw Joseph waiting in the living room with great interest.

was still a little tired from her day of fun yesterday. After greeting Joseph, she

walking up the stairs, she turned to Valentin and

for you.” Valentin handed her the

Ashley thought it was pretty cute and brought

snowman dolls of various sizes and models to

speechless

two cute

them to Joseph, Ashley said, “This one is for you, and the other is for me