When She Stops Playing Nice by Hale Saxon
Chapter 436

Chapter 436

Ashley chuckled coldly. “For no reason? You have no clue what your sweet sister has been up to, de

“Jasmine Bush, I genuinely treated you like a sister-in-law before. Is this how you repay me? Putting detergent in my tonic, are you trying to kill me? Don’t you know I just had a miscarriage? Even if I were to slap you, it would be too light!”

Therefore, Ashley intended to land a second slap, but Jabari restrained her wrist. “Ashley, what’s going on here? Please calm down first. Let’s sit down and talk this through, is there some misunderstanding?”

Ashley struggled and shook off Jabar’s hand. “Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding could there possibly be?”

Jasmine replied weakly, “Ashley, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I don’t know anything about anyt tonic. Didn’t you say Gina gave you the medicine that day? Shouldn’t you talk to her if there’s a problem?”

After hearing Jasmine’s response, Ashley finally realized that Jasmine was trying to shift the blame onto Gina and have her deal with it. She sat back and watched the scene unfold without lifting a finger. This realization infuriated Ashley even more; Jasmine had used herl

“The kitchen surveillance captured you pouring detergent into my medicine jar. How can you still have the nerve to argue?”

Jasmine’s pupils suddenly constricted. She hadn’t anticipated that there would be surveillance in Ashley’s kitchen, and Ashley had already brought out the footage. Jasmine had no way to argue her way out of this.

Seeing the surveillance footage, Jabari felt frustration and speechless anger. He reprimanded, “Jasmine Bush, what foolishness have you gotten yourself into?”

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Feeling like she had nothing to lose, Jasmine said, “Ashley, I didn’t mean to do it I couldn’t accept that Gina Miller could marry into the Jackson family. I was confused for a moment, I did something wrong, I’m sorry. I know I was wrong, please don’t be angry with me, okay? I’m sorry, I’m sorry! It’s just that I love Gabriel too much!”

Ashley felt like Jasmine was acting somewhat delusional as if her mind was clouded. “So you love Gabriel so much that you don’t want Gina to marry into the Jackson family? Do you think poisoning me would successfully prevent that? I bet you only thought of putting detergent in my tonic on a whin Should I be thanking you? If you had planned it earlier and used actual poison on me, considering my weakened state, your poisoning could have killed me by now!”

Jasmine lowered her head, feeling a pang of guilt as Ashley’s words hit home. She realized only now that there was surveillance in the kitchen. Despite her remorse, she felt a sense of relief that she hadn’t prepared the poison in advance. Harry wouldn’t have spared her if anything had happened to Ashley.

Ashley was still not calm and wanted to hit Jasmine, but Jabari intervened, “Ashley, I understand you’re angry, but violence won’t solve anything. Jasmine made a mistake, but hitting her that won’t do. Let’s talk about how to compensate you.”

“Compensation?” Ashley scoffed. “Do you think something is lacking in my life that needs compensation from you? What does the Bush family have to offer me? I’m quite curious!”

Jabari was momentarily at a loss for words, but he still chose to protect Jasmine. “In any case, I won’t let you hit my sister,” he declared

After exerting all her strength in those two slaps to Jasmine, Ashley felt like she had used up all the energy in her body. She now felt a sense of oxygen deprivation, weakness throughout her body, and dizziness. Ashley could barely stand and needed to replace something to lean on, compounded by the headache from her anger. Ashley realized she couldn’t handle Jabari alone. So, she decided to retreat for now. Pointing at Jabari, she said, “Mark my words; this isn’t over between us!” Following that, Ashley left.

After Ashley left, Jabari spoke with a heavy heart. “I thought you were just going to visit Ashley, not stir up trouble. I never imagined, I truly never imagined, that you would come up with such aloolish plan to frame Gina, Jasmine, our Bush family, will eventually be ruined because of your

Listening to Jabari’s accusation, Jasmine broke down emotionally. “Can you blame me for all of this? It’s all Gina Miller’s fault. If Gina Miller badi’t seduced Gabriel, if she hadn’t stolen my Gabriel away, would all these things have happened? It’s that d**n Gina Miller Instead of blaming me, you should have realized earlier that she is the root of all this trouble. Please help me eliminate Gina Miller; all the problems will disappear. De vou

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understand?”

Jabari felt a wave of anguish. He closed his eyes and sighed. “Jasmine Bush, you’re beyond redemption.” Without another word to Jasmine, Jabarl turned and left. As he was about to walk out the door, he uttered, “From today onward, don’t even think about stepping outside this room!”

“No, don’t!” Jasmine protested vehemently, but her response was met only with Jabari’s resounding door slam.

In the dead of night, Gina was awakened by her phone ringing. Groggily, she fumbled around and found her phone on the bedside table, answering it with a sleepy, “Hello?”

“Gina, it’s me. Cathy is in trouble.”

Gina’s first thought was whether Ashley had retaliated against Cathy again. It sobered her up a bit, and she immediately sat up straight, asking, “What happened?”

“I’m not sure. It happened suddenly. Cathy was fine in the afternoon. The nurse caring for her said Cathy started feeling sleepy in the evening. Initially, they thought she was tired and falling asleep, but she had a high fever. Despite receiving injections and IV fluids, her fever didn’t go down. Then they ran some tests and found signs of o**n failure in her.”

“O**n failure?” Gina found it hard to believe. It couldn’t be happening. Cathy had only been beaten up; she was injured, but it shouldn’t have led to o**n failure. There must be something else going on! She couldn’t shake off the suspicion that Ashley had retaliated against Cathy again, possibly by poisoning her food. After all, Ashley had mentioned tampering with the herbs earlier, Gina harbored resentment towards Ashley, but Ashley didn’t dare to retaliate directly against her, so she might have targeted Cathy instead. However, these were all just Gina’s speculations for now.

Unable to sleep, Gina immediately got up, changed her clothes, and left. She hurried to Prover Hospital as fast as she could. The rescue operation for Cathy ended, but she remained in the ICU.

With his nose wrapped in gauze due to the broken nose, Dylan approached Gina. “Gina, the results from the lab are out. There’s nothing wrong with what Cathy ate, drank, or was given intravenously. No one tampered with anything. However, Cathy’s sudden o**n failure is extremely unusual”

Gina frowned, gazing through the window at the barely conscious Cathy lying in the ICU. Lost in thought, she turned to Dylan and said, “Bring me protective gear, I’m going in to see her.”

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