Jessie went to the kitchen, filled a bowl with the porridge, and then put it on the table. She sat opposite Ashlyn and rested her chin on her hand. “I’m not joking. Devin cooked the porridge himself!”
To be honest, it had taken Jessie a long time to digest this fact even though she had seen it herself with her own eyes. When she entered the kitchen earlier in the afternoon, she was surprised to see Devin standing there, wearing an apron. Before she could react, he asked her to sit down first while he continued to cook the porridge.
Jessie obediently sat on the sofa in the living room, but she couldn’t help sending glances towards the kitchen, wondering if she was just dreaming this scene or not.
When Devin came out after finishing with the porridge, his phone rang. After answering the call, he told her about Ashlyn’s condition before leaving.
Jessie had been sitting on the sofa by herself the entire afternoon. When she smelled the delicious porridge in the kitchen, she felt jealous somehow.
Ashlyn was silent for a moment before asking, “What did he tell you?”
“Nothing. He just asked me to take good care of you. He also told me that you have a fever and haven’t eaten anything the entire day. After that, he left.”
When the words left Jessie’s lips, she suddenly remembered the reason why she came here in the first place.
“By the way, what’s going on? I saw the articles on the Internet. What does Raina cutting her wrist have to do with you?”
“How does Raina slashing her wrist and killing herself have anything to do with me?” Ashlyn asked Jessie, wiping the corners of her lips with a tissue. “What are the comments saying?”
She hadn’t gone online to see what the comments were saying. But as per what Arabella had said that afternoon, Ashlyn knew that people were most likely accusing her.
A flood of anger swept over Jessie at Ashlyn’s words. “God damn it! People are now blaming you for driving Raina to suicide!”
“Wow! How cruel I am!” Ashlyn said with a mocking smile. “So did you leave the concert and come here to read these comments?”
Jessie threw the phone aside and said, “Of course not! They’re talking too harshly!”
“Let me see!” Ashlyn’s eyebrows shot up.
She was just reaching for her phone when Jessie snatched it and tried to mollify her by saying, “Forget it. I’m afraid that you’ll feel worse if you see them.”
Ashlyn smiled at Jessie. “Come on! Do you think I will take them to heart? Give me the phone.”
Jessie thought for a long moment before agreeing. “I think Raina paid these rumormongers to spread these rumors.”
Meanwhile, Ashlyn tried to log in but couldn’t get through. She looked at Jessie and said, “Twitter isn’t working.”
“Then don’t read the comments.”
Twitter was jammed, probably because people were trying to message Ashlyn to blame her.
Ashlyn took another sip of her porridge and said, “It doesn’t matter. Learning how to make accusations is all well and good.”
Ashlyn had a relaxed smile as she said this.
Jessie knew that it was not easy to destroy Ashlyn and passed her the phone.
Ashlyn looked at it with great interest for a while and found that the situation was not as bad as she had thought. “Look! There is someone speaking for me.”
Jessie was surprised. “It’s good that you are thinking this way.” She wondered if she was worrying too much.
“But I’m still very angry. Look at the heated comments! Damn it! They are saying that you are too aggressive. That no wonder Gordon doesn’t like you and refuses to have sex with you. And they say that you deserve it,” Jessie said, fuming.
Ashlyn clicked her tongue. “They aren’t saying anything wrong.”
As she caught the smile on Ashlyn’s face, Jessie asked in disbelief, “Aren’t you angry?”
“Of course I’m angry, but I won’t let them slander me like this.”
Ashlyn would make Raina and Arabella pay the price for all the scheming they had done against her.
“Of course. How can we let it go? They are taking Raina and Arabella’s side and accusing you. We should do something about it and make sure the two sisters experience the same thing.”
Ashlyn returned the phone to Jessie and said, “I don’t care if they accuse me. I just don’t like the two sisters scheming against me again and again.”
Jessie became excited at Ashlyn’s expression. “What are you going to do?”
“An eye for an eye,” Ashlyn said.
“Meaning?” Jessie said, puzzled.
“I want to know how people can be so sure that I was the one to drive Raina to suicide.”
Jessie knew something about this. “A friend of Arabella’s sent a screenshot of their conversation, indicating that you refused Raina’s apology and told her to go to hell.”
“Oh, really?”
Fact was that Ashlyn had been sleeping all morning.
Then, she remembered she had answered a phone call. She had thought that it was an important call from Talia.
She had been quite sleepy and recorded the call, intending to listen to it carefully after she had woken up.
That was why she had a record of that phone call.
The news of Raina slashing her wrist caused a sensation. The Jones family was once again in trouble.
The uproar over Gordon and Ashlyn’s fake marriage was not yet over when Raina decided to cut herself.
The Jones family was at the center of the storm this time. There was no doubting it.
Gordon was the one to take the full blast.
Jessie was right. Now that news of Raina’s suicide was on the Internet, there were indeed a lot of people cursing Ashlyn. But this was just the beginning.
It was probably because Ashlyn’s statement to the reporters was too much to take in and because Gordon and Ashlyn’s marriage had been a mess from the very beginning that public opinion was quickly divided into three groups.
The first blamed Ashlyn’s ruthlessness. The second group thought that Raina was a scheming woman because her suicide made sure that Ashlyn and Gordon no longer had a chance of getting back together. These people pitied Ashlyn’s condition. The third group cursed Gordon and made him out to be worthless scum and thought that both Ashlyn and Raina were victims.
But judging from how public opinion was quickly spreading, there were fewer and fewer people cursing at Ashlyn. Most of the Internet users who had learned about the whole thing wondered if Raina’s wrist cutting was real or just a trick.
Still, no matter what happened, most Internet users cursed Gordon.
When Nathaniel learned about this, his anger knew no bounds. He tried taking a nap to cool down but his anger didn’t allow him. His call to Gordon went unanswered too.
Nathaniel was still furious with Ashlyn the next morning. Not just Ashlyn, he now had a problem with the entire Morgan family.
“This Raina is really a nasty piece of work!”
Carl, who was standing nearby, tightened his lips before saying, “She is really something.”
Raina had returned for a short period of time, but so many things had happened since.
However, she seemed to be the victim at every turn. If Nathaniel insisted that she go abroad again, Gordon would fall out with him.
And now, she had slit her wrist. It looked like she was getting back at Ashlyn, but really, she was forcing the hand of the Jones family.
Because of what happened last night, people had a bad impression of the Jones family. Now, most people knew that the real reason behind Gordon’s marriage to Ashlyn was to wait for Raina to return from abroad.
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