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Laura looked at Miranda and asked, “What’s his name? Did he tell you?”
Miranda shook her head obediently. “No. He seemed pretty nice, though. He knew | was a celebrity and didn’t leak the news
about my near car ident. He even helped me keep it secret.”
Laura pondered for a moment and thought maybe she was overthinking.
She doubted Miranda would coincidentally encounter Ryan...
Lunand
After Miranda finished talking about the car ident, she took Ashley’s hand, worriedly saying, “Ashley, when | wasing to
the lounge earlier, | saw Jeremy and Matthew outside. | think they came specifically for you.”
Miranda used to like Matthew a lot, enjoyed his songs, and even idolized. him.
But after learning what the Ramos family had done to Ashley, Miranda decisively stopped being a fan and didn’t like Matthew
anymore.
She would unconditionally stand with Ashley if she had to choose between the Ramos family and Ashley.This content ? N?v/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
When she heard Jeremy and Matthew''s names, Ashley’s expression immediately became indifferent. “Don’t bother with them.”
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a knock at the door.
Bryce, who had been sitting silently on the couch, turned his head to look at the door.
Laura went to open it. When she opened the door, she found Jeremy and Matthew standing there.
“Ashley...” Jeremy looked straight at Ashley, ignoring everyone else. “Can youe out for a moment? | have something to
hand over to you.”
Bryce stood up from the couch and walked next to Ashley protectively, coldly eyeing Jeremy and Matthew.
Miranda also showed no kindness towards Jeremy and Matthew.
Ashley saw that Jeremy was indeed holding a box in his hands. After looking down and thinking for a moment, she decided
staying there
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wouldn''t solve anything and walked over. Then, they walked out of the lounge and into the corridor.
Matthew stared at Ashley intently. He didn’t want to miss her expression change. “Ashley, how have you beentely? Are you
okay?”
Ashley ignored him, looking impatiently at the box in Jeremy’s hands, signaling him to get to the point.
Jeremy hurriedly said, “Ashley, you must have heard. Frankie has been missing recently. | don’t know if he had an ident or
went somewhere... | haven''t been able to contact him either.”
Ashley’s expression remained calm and detached as if she was listening to something insignificant.
Matthew continued, “Before Frankie disappeared, he came to Jeremy and me. He left us something to pass on to you.
Jeremy and | didn’t know where you lived and couldn''t contact you, so we came here after hearing you were attending a charity
dinner tonight.”
Jeremy handed the box to Ashley, saying, “This is what Frankie asked us to give you. Matthew and | haven''t opened it.”
Ashley nced at the box but didn’t even take it, not wanting to ept it.
Knowing Ashley’s disdain, Jeremy opened the box himself. “Ashley, you should take a look first, then decide whether to take it or
not.”
When he moved the lid, they saw what was inside the box.
Ashley’s eyes widened when she saw what it was.
Inside the box were two items. On the left was an emerald ne.
Ashley recognized it instantly it was her emerald ne.
She had been adrift since childhood and had an emerald ne with her birth date engraved.
Ashley had carefully preserved this emerald ne since she was
young.
Unfortunately, two years ago, when she returned to the Ramos family, Jessica saw her emerald ne and curiously took it
away to y with it. Ashley, wanting to fit in with the Ramos family, agreed for Jessica to y with it, only to be told the next day
that Jessica had lost it.
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Ashley was really angry and anxious at that time, urging Jessica to search thoroughly for it, insisting that she must find it.
When Frankie learned about this, instead of ming Jessica, he sternly reprimanded Ashley, saying that it was just an old
emerald ne. It was not worth to ask them to find it for her. He even worried that Jessica. might have yed with it all night
and dirtied her hands with the emerald ne.
Since then, the emerald ne has been lost and never found.
Now, Frankie had specially found it and asked Jeremy and Matthew to give it back to her.
In addition to the emerald ne, there was also a broken diamond hairpin in the box, which had been glued back together
from its shattered pieces.
That was the first Christmas Eve Ashley spent with the Ramos family. Evan and Bertha had prepared luxurious and valuable gifts
for Jessica. But for Ashley, the gift was an old diamond hairpin that Jessica was about. to throw away because she didn’t like it
anymore.
Such a second-hand, used, and old gift was eventually crushed under Frankie''s foot.
Now, Frankie had painstakingly glued it back together piece by piece.
Ashley found it all quiteughable..
She couldn’t understand why Frankie had kept the crushed hairpin all
this time.
But the act of gluing it back together seemed foolish and ridiculous to Ashley.
Jeremy carefully asked, “Ashley, this is what Frankie asked me to give you. Do you...want to take it?”
Ashley only took back her emerald ne, feeling that even touching the diamond hairpin would dirty her hands.
Matthew quickly added, “Ashley, Frankie also had a message for us to convey to you.”
Ashley didn’t want to listen and was about to head back to the lounge.
But just then, she saw Lester approaching.
She was puzzled to see him there.
In a ck shirt with long legs, Lester sheered, “You should just give such persistent people a good beating.”
It was clear he was referring to Jeremy and Matthew.
Jeremy and Matthew immediately looked at Lester, realizing his hostility towards them.
Ashley, not wanting to see Jeremy and Matthew anymore, signaled Lester and walked with him to the other end of the corridor.
Only when Jeremy and Matthew were out of sight did Ashley stop and ask, “Why are you here?”
Lester smiled, saying ambiguously, “| made a donation for charity, so | was invited to the charity dinner. It’s quite a coincidence to
meet you. here.”
Ashley was speechless.
Lester said it was a coincidence, but he obviously came specifically for Ashley.
He wanted to personally find out if Ashley was indeed his sister, who had gone missing when they were children.
As for how to do a DNA test, he thought that hair with follicles could be used for testing...
With a thoughtful look, Lester eyed Ashley’s long hair, thinking that instead of waiting for another day, he might as well take this
opportunity to get some of her hair.
Without making a sound, Lester moved a step closer to Ashley and reached his hand toward the hair on her back.