Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

Chapter 212

Lester stared at the video of Cara once again, contemplating as he asked, “George, what do you think?”

George’s expression remained unchanged. He lightly tapped the table, his tone carrying an air of indifference. “Just go and find out.”

“Alright, I’ll have someone look into it,” Lester said, slightly narrowing his eyes as he handed the phone back to Ashley.

After the meal, the three of them left the restaurant.

Just as they stepped out of the restaurant, Ashley received a call from an unknown number.

She answered the phone with a casual “Hello.”

On the other end, Bertha’s discontented voice came through. “Ashley, don’t you have a conscience? You even blocked your own mother’s number!”

Ashley’s expression turned cold. “Bertha, you got no say about my

conscience.”

“You!” Bertha was so angry that her fingers trembled, and her breath became rapid. “Are you trying to drive me mad? What did I do to deserve a daughter as ungrateful as you!”

“If this is what your call is about, I don’t have time for it,” Ashley said, poised to hang up.

“Ashley Ramos!” Bertha interrupted, and her tone filled with indignation. “I’ve been in the hospital, and not once have you bothered to visit. Even if I were on my deathbed, you still won’t show up?”

“Back when you and Frankie conspired to accuse me of pushing my own biological mother down, did you remember that I was your daughter?” Ashley asked calmly.

Bertha was momentarily silenced by the retort, and after a while, she said. with a desolate tone, “Let bygones be bygones. Come to the hospital and see me. My condition…”

“Your condition has nothing to do with me.” Ashley rejected

emotionlessly.

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Bertha’s breath quickened again, like an old, wheezing bellows. “Alright, if you don’t grace me a visit, I won’t insist. But mark my words, no more tormenting Jessica. Jeremy, Ryan, and Matthew dared to lay

eyes filled with

‘No wonder the sudden

years of neglect and no concern from her

upon hearing

who was on the phone. They looked at Ashley with

everything

“Jeremy, Ryan, and Matthew treated Jessica so well before. They never laid a hand on her, not even a

on the roadside. and suddenly felt exhausted. She closed her eyes

silent momentarily and then murm “Are you accusing

Ashley remained silent.

“What do you know? In the first two days a we brought you back to Ramos Villa, Jessica hid under her blanket, silently shedding tears. She was afraid she

ever since I rejoined the Ramos family, you’ve been playing

indeed my biological daughter, but Jessica is the one Evan and I brought back from the orphanage. I watched her grow step by step. The first time she wore new clothes, the first time. she had a birthday cake, the first time she went to an amusement park… All of it. I, as her mother, was there. The nurturing

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that can be

what about me?”

her to the amusement park, and celebrating her birthdays, I was alone

You went through so much hardship growing up, handling a fair share of setbacks. Jessica isn’t like you. She had a comfortable upbringing since childhood,

missed you too, but we couldn’t find you back then. Eventually, we went to the orphanage and brought Jessica back. That’s

already a part of the Ramos family. Can’t you just treat her like a sister? Jessica is not like you. She doesn’t understand as much, and she

hung up the phone without

hand against her heart,

fraction of the motherly

even this meager amount of affection was