Valentin hurriedly held her up, his eyes filled with worry. "A little dizzy? I'll call a doctor right away!"
Ashley reached up to rub her temples. "I'm better now, I probably got a bit of a cold from falling in the water earlier... Tsk, I can get a cold even from falling in the water when I'm so strong."
Valentin was speechless.
Joseph was sweating with anxiety and ran over with a towel. "Ashley, how are you feeling? Wipe your hair quickly. Valentin, you too!"
When Tyler dragged Ashley into the water earlier, Joseph was so anxious that he took off his jacket and tried to jump in. But George stopped him and told him to pick them up on the cruise ship and keep an eye on Cara.
He thought, 'Luckily, Valentin managed to get Ashley out.'
Reassured, Joseph glanced toward Cara as he handed the towel to Valentin and Ashley to wipe their hair.
At this point, Cara sat paralyzed on the deck, seemingly crying and laughing as if she were insane.
Jeremy and Matthew, who jumped into the river, also came up from the water. The two were wet and glanced at Cara, sitting paralyzed on the deck, and Ashley, who was not far away from Valentin. Their moods had never been more suffocated and heavy.
They felt that God had played a huge joke on them.
Ashley suddenly became unrelated to them and not their sister.
Instead, their real sister became Cara...
Frankie, Charlie, and Ryan strode over and eagerly asked, "How's Ashley?"
Jeremy waved his hand. "Don't worry. It didn't take long for Matthew and I to jump in before Valentin and the man in the black shirt swam over to Ashley. And Ashley's awesome. Tyler couldn't control her."
Frankie and the other two breathed a long sigh of relief.
Matthew was so upset that he sat directly on the deck in disgrace, the ends of his hair dripping downward and his eyes scarlet. "Frankie, Ashley just looked at me and Jeremy in the water and didn't say a word to us..."
Frankie became upset as well and stayed silent for several seconds before saying, "Ashley still refuses to forgive us."
Ryan felt upset at his words and looked even more annoyed when he glanced at Cara, who was not far away. "How can Cara be our sister? Is this true?"
Jeremy was equally resistant, but... "Valentin just took out a DNA test report..."
Charlie glanced toward Cara, his calm face becoming gloomy.
He thought, 'Is it because of the so-called blood relationship that I could get along with Cara as if she were a friend when I didn't see through her true nature before?'
But after seeing through Cara's true nature, Charlie never wanted to be in contact with Cara for one more second.
But now he suddenly learned that Cara was his sister, which shocked him.
All five of the Ramos family were silent, with a heavy, depressed expression, as if they'd lost their parents.
Cara could see that none of the Ramos family wanted to recognize her as a sister.
But she didn't want to recognize them either.
She thought, 'Do I like them? Every one of them is stupid. I dislike them even more!'
Cara only liked one person from the beginning...
Cara pressed against the deck so hard that her bones turned white and looked over toward Valentin ghostly.
She stared obsessively at Valentin's handsome profile as if looking up at an unattainable god.
She felt that only such a man was worthy of her...
Cara's eyes grew steeply grim with resigned cynicism when she glanced at Ashley in Valentin's arms. None of the skills she'd learned as a child could match Ashley's...
Even more ridiculous...
"Nothing." Valentin's tone was calm, and his movements were gentle as he rubbed her hair.
He couldn't care less about justice now but just wanted to get justice for his girl.
Not far away, Andrew glanced at the injured spot on Ashley's waist and said coldly to Colby beside him, "Take good care of Cara and Tyler."
"Take good care" was clearly not literal care.
Colby responded, having long gotten used to it.
Andrew had never been much of a soft-hearted man, so he could get to the position he was in now, scaring the hell out of everyone. He had blood on his hands, but the little kindness he had left was divided among Ashley.
Whoever hurt Ashley deserved better?
*****
Tyler and Cara were tied up with ropes by bodyguards and escorted off the cruise ship.
Suddenly, Tyler glanced back towards Ashley, the emotion in his eyes a bit eerie.
*****
"Ashley, how are you feeling now?" Lester and George came over, followed by two doctors. "Is there anything wrong with you? Do you want the doctors to check you out?"
Ashley sensed carefully that there was nothing physically wrong with her.
She just jumped into the water, the equivalent of swimming.
Her grandparents had well nourished her body since she was a child, and they sometimes gave her extremely precious supplements to drink.
But Ashley nodded anyway, seeing the worry in Karen and Brian's eyes. "Then let the doctor check it out."
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