Save Myself from Desperation by Cara Agnes

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After having dinner with Zain in the evening, Joseph stayed at Kingsley Manor, and Ashley and Valentin returned to Kingsley Villa.

Ashley walked into Kingsley Villa’s living room and sat on the couch. She hadn’t even rested for a moment when she received a call from Simon Hunt, her grandfather’s lifetime friend.

Simon knew that Ashley could paint and that Ashley was the mysterious female painter, Aurora.

“Ashley. I’m organizing a painting exhibition in the next few days, not a solo exhibition, but a comprehensive one, showing landscape oil paintings by many famous artists. I would love to invite you to participate!” Simon warmly invited.

Ashley thought that Simon was a good friend of her grandfather’s when he was alive and that Simon was a true lover of paintings, so she agreed to the invitation.

The next morning, Ashley planned to go back to where her grandparents used to live.

The paintings she painted were placed in her previous home.

Ashley spoke to Valentin and got ready to head out.

Valentin, however, stood up. “I’ll accompany you.”

He was worried that if she went back alone, she would be prone to think of her deceased grandparents and fall into sadness.

“Don’t you have to go to the company today?” Ashley didn’t want to interfere with his work. “You don’t have to stay with me. I’m fine.”

“It’s just work. How can it be more important than you? After Valentin finished speaking, he called Tom and asked him to cancel what he could in today’s schedule and postpone what he couldn’t

Ashley gently bit her lower lip, her heart indescribably soft.

Ashley had no choice but to go out with him.

Her grandfather sometimes moved to the country when he got excited and wanted to farm

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he also had plenty of places to stay

vacant, but Ashley hired someone to

villa and pushed the door in. The flowers in the yard were in full bloom. Only the lack of care had caused a layer of petals and

in. The house was still bright and clean because the cleaners were hired to clean it regularly, so no dust had

furnished exactly as it had been when her

eyes were sore as she watched these memorized scenes, and a hidden wave of rolling tears appeared

old days of living with her grandparents floated before her eyes, like a slide movie, rewinding scene by scene, from the present scene by scene back to when she was a child and when

Ashley had no

grandparents and

the

right hand fell into a warm palm. Ashley turned her head in a daze and

with her had traveled through time and grown into his current handsome, dignified

closest to her as

and the tears in her eyes dissipated. Her delicate eyebrows slowly revealed a charming smile. “I suddenly realized that are exceptionally

Valentin was stunned.

you

eyebrows lazily and saying, “Ashley,

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a loss

back what I just said. Just pretend I didn’t say it.” Ashley pointed to the couch next to her. “Make yourself comfortable. I’ll

were all framed, so she rolled them up

Ashley delivered them to Simon, and they

drew the painting of a starry sky she’d promised Joseph earlier and

at the bar when he got the call and immediately rushed over.

finished painting. “Wow, Ashley, your painting of a starry sky is beautiful!”

on the couch and snacked lazily. “It’s good that you know.”

out his cell phone

it as being

and they we instantly shocked to see the stunning painting of a starry sky and