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He scolded me, “Jasmine, how can you be so vicious? Nessa is your sister, and yot you curse her! Come back with me right now. Nossa is waiting for you at home. She wants you to witness her important moment. How can you be so selfish?”
Looking at the enraged Kyle, I folt my chost achod so much that I could hardly breathe.
So this was how Kyle cared about someone. He couldn’t oven tolorato a single bad word about her.
Then, what was I in these six years?
I mumbled the question, and Kyle paused, confused.
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I didn’t wait for his answer. Holding back the pain in my heart, I asked, “Kyle, why do you want me to go back so badly?”
Kyle replied, “Didn’t Nossa say she wants you to be her bridesmaid? Sho just came back Frenzinia and doesn’t have any friends, so it has to be you.”
I looked at Kyle in despair.
I suddenly felt no pain in my heart: I was numb
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Kyle couldn’t possibly not know how I felt about him, yet he asked me to be Vanessa’s
bridesmaid.
I wiped my cheeks and realized I was already in tears.
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I was about to refuse when Kyle said, “Jasmine, you’d better think it over. Also, think about
the man with you. You wouldn’t want him to be forced out of Cloudineze because of you, would
you?”
His cold, harsh words struck me like a thunderclap, shattering my reason in an instant.
Seeing my dazed expression, Kyle put on a face with cruel indifference.
He continued, “If you go back, I’ll let him go. I won’t bring up the fact that you lied to me
before.”
At that moment, it felt like my heart had been crushed underfoot and then thrown into an icy,
cold abyss.
I didn’t understand what Kyle meant.
Seeing my confusion, Kyle explained with mock mercy, “When I was kidnapped, it was Nessa
who saved me. She was in the hospital for a long time because of it, but you lied to me, saying it
was you who saved me. If I hadn’t forced Nessa to admit it, she wouldn’t have told me the truth.
Nessa and I are already in love, and because you claimed to have saved me, she thought you
liked me, so she went to Frenzinia. She didn’t want to compete with you. But Jasmine, what’s
obtained through lies can never truly be yours. If you still have any conscience, you should cooperate and be Nessa’s bridesmaid, so she knows you and I have nothing to do with each
other.”
When these words came from Kyle, I couldn’t believe it. My ears rang, and my mind went
blank; I couldn’t hear anything else.
But I knew the truth: I was the one who saved Kyle.
The day Kyle was kidnapped, Vanessa didn’t want to go to class and faked a heart attack.
It was I who saw Kyle being abducted, and I was the one who dug a tunnel in that old
warehouse to carry the unconscious Kyle out.
I stayed by his side the whole time. Yet now, Kyle said I had lied to him. How absurd.
I looked into Kyle’s eyes. His gaze was indifferent, and I felt like I had been tossed into the
coldest ocean, with all the blood in my body frozen.
Kyle’s expression remained calm, and there was no emotion in his eyes, leaving me unable
to guess what he was thinking.
But now I finally understood why Kyle’s gaze had always been so complicated after he was rescued, and why his attitude toward me had suddenly become so harsh.
It turned out that the one he cared about was always Vanessa.
I was nothing but the villain who broke them apart.
At that moment, Scott suddenly spoke up, “I’m not afraid of you. If you’re so capable, try Q
kicking me out of Cloudineze!”
Kyle only smiled, his expression turning even more unpleasant as he looked at me, his gaze
growing darker.
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My heart tightened.
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Kyle said, “Jasmine, even if you don’t care about this man, what about the orphanage?”
At Kyle’s words, I froze.
A thick, suffocating pain rose in my heart, just as sharp as when he first abandoned me to
find Vanessa.
I hadn’t expected Kyle to know about my support for the orphanage. I had always thought he
was too busy to notice something like that.
But seeing the certainty in his eyes, I understood.
He had assumed I was the kind of shameless woman who would do anything to protect
Vanessa, and so, he’d likely been investigating everything I cared about to silence me once and
for all.
Shuddering at the thought, I bit my lip hard, the sharp pain making me feel slightly relieved.
I heard my hoarse voice say, “I’ll go back.”
I was destined to leave, and I shouldn’t bring disaster to those left behind.
