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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places to stay in the city.

but Ashley hired someone to clean them regularly.

led Valentin to a suburban 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 fallen leaves to accumulate on

house was still bright and clean because the cleaners were hired

was furnished exactly as it had been when her grandparents were alive and

these memorized scenes, and a hidden wave of

eyes, like a slide movie, rewinding scene by scene, from the present scene by scene back to when

time, Ashley had

had grandparents and Valentin…

had the

right hand fell into a warm palm. Ashley turned

who had grown up with her had traveled through time and grown into

many things, the people closest to her as a child

eyebrows slowly revealed a charming smile. “I suddenly realized that

Valentin was stunned.

you

her sudden remark, raising his eyebrows lazily and saying, “Ashley, so all those compliments you gave me yesterday were

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a loss for words.

just said. Just pretend I didn’t say it.” Ashley pointed to the couch next to

all framed, so she

up the paintings, Ashley delivered them to Simon, and they would

the painting of a starry sky she’d promised Joseph earlier and called him to

time at the bar when he got

excited to see the finished painting. “Wow, Ashley, your painting of a starry sky is

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

it so much!” Joseph hastily took out his cell phone and took dozens of photos from various angles

as being drawn by “Aurora” herself.

instantly shocked to see the