Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
His dark eyes gazed at her before a sarcastic smile appeared on the corners of his lips. “Are you worried about me?”
“So what if I am? Why are you here at this hour when you’re injured instead of resting at home?” How long would he have stood there if she had not opened the window?
Her heart could not help but tremble at the thought of this.
He chuckled as his lashes drooped a little. “Would it move you if I said I came here because I wanted to see you? Will you be moved enough to get back together with me?”.
“Hadwin Stephenson I’m serious!!!
“And who are you to say I’m not serious?” he retorted.
She froze and looked at him in silence, her hands by her sides gripping the hem of her pajamas. “I… won’t get back together with you.”
She had no idea if he would abandon her again for ambition, money, and power if the Stephenson family had another crisis!
At that time, maybe not only her but her parents would also suffer a harder blow.
Therefore… even though she still had feelings for him, she dared not take a chance again.
However… “I’m very grateful to you for saving my life today. If it hadn’t been for you, I would’ve been the one injured. I might have even ended up in a hospital. But…” She bit her lip before mustering the courage to say, “Hadwin Stephenson, you don’t have to save me again next time. Since we have nothing to do with each other anymore, you don’t need to keep saving me!”
His eyes froze, and the look of sarcasm in his gaze grew thicker!
“What’s the matter? Are you afraid you’ll keep owing me and it’ll be impossible for you to get away from me?” His piercing eyes seemed to see right through her.
Lina stiffened, only to hear him continue saying, “So what if you continue to owe me more and more? Will it make it to be with Anthony Sherman?”
Her heart quivered. ‘He thinks that… Anthony Sherman and I…
‘Well, people will easily misunderstand it if I don’t make it clear.’
“Lina, believe it or not, you’ll keep owing me…” His voice sounded so clear at night. “…unless you marry another man and become his wife one day. In that case, I’ll disappear and never meet you again!”
Lina seemed startled.
He spoke with such determination that she felt as though there was a sharp sword mercilessly stabbing her heart!
Pain burst out of her heart!
She thought that they would no longer be involved with each other but did not think that they would not even see each other again.
She had even imagined countless times that they might meet by chance on the streets and smile at each other when they were old, looking back at their past sufferings as pleasant memories.
However… his words seemed to have shattered all her fantasies.
“Do you want to marry someone else and never see me again?” Hadwin Stephenson’s voice continued ringing in her ears.
She stared at him and did not know what to say for a moment.
Hadwin Stephenson seemed to have no intention of waiting for her answer. He turned around, intending to leave.
Lina stepped forward and suddenly grabbed his arm. “Are your injuries serious?”
The tall figure stiffened instantly and paled in the moonlight. “I told you. Don’t touch me if you have no feelings for me!”
“Can’t someone you saved be concerned about your injuries?”
asked Lina.
“Others can, but… not you!” he said, trying to remove his arm from her fingers.
Lina felt her heart hurt even more, but she still firmly grasped Hadwin Stephenson’s arm. “Are your wounds serious?” It was all she wanted to know. How injured was he?
If… If only she would not let him leave her side!
“Do you really want to know?” His voice rang unusually hoarsely.
“Yes, I do,” she answered him affirmatively.
“Okay. Let go and I’ll show you!” said Hadwin Stephenson.
Lina hesitated a little before letting go.
Then, Hadwin Stephenson took off his jacket and shirt in front of her… exposing his skin.
The pale moonlight fell on his body, letting the sight of the white gauze on his body sting her eyes.
The thick gauze almost covered his back and chest, but she could still see some faint red on the white gauze.
“My injuries have been taken care of, so you don’t have to worry,” Hadwin Stephenson said coldly.
Just as he was about to put his clothes back on, his body stiffened again because her hand was pressing on his back without warning. He could feel it so vividly even through the gauze.
“It must have been painful, right?” Lina asked in a whisper.
Hadwin Stephenson pressed his thin lips together tightly.
He had not felt any pain when he fell with her in his arms. All he wanted was for her to be safe.
However… when Anthony Sherman ran over to him to thank him, he started feeling the pain and remembered that she already had another man by her side.
‘Is Anthony Sherman part of the reason why she said she can’t be with me?
‘Will she and Anthony Sherman get married and have children one day?’
‘If that happens, what should I do…?’ Maybe he would only be able to live a life without any expectations.
Hadwin Stephenson took a step back and put his clothes back on. “Alright, you’ve seen what you wanted to see. If you care about whether I’m in pain, why don’t you… come back to my side? Then I won’t be in pain anymore!”
Lina bit her lip and said nothing.
Hadwin Stephenson laughed bitterly. “It seems that you’d rather let me be in pain, huh?” He said nothing more after that, lifting his feet to walk away.
Lina watched the figure disappear into the night before crouching down as if she was exhausted. She wrapped her hands tightly around her knees as her nose felt sore.
She wanted to cry but could not, and her mouth had a bitter taste.
‘How did things turn out this way between us? What should I do? I’ve finally made up my mind, but why do I keep wavering because of him?’
Sean never expected to see Lily again!
However, Lily was different from the woman he remembered. She wore plain cheap clothes, and her frizzy hair was carelessly tied up with a rubber band. Her face was as gaunt as if she were in her 40s.
People who were unaware would not believe that she was “You…” Sean did not know what to say.
“What’s the matter? You don’t recognize me after not meeting for so long?” asked Lily. They were in KFC, and there were all kinds of people going in and out. Hence, they did not stand out.
No one here would have guessed that the man and woman conversing were once a sensational couple in tMason Swansonty.
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