Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The receptionist led Lina to the elevator and helped her press the floor number as they spoke, “The president’s office is on the 32nd floor. You’ll be led to President Stephenson’s office when you arrive on the floor!”
Lina did not expect Hadwin Stephenson to have told his employees about her arrival. When she reached the 32nd floor, there was already someone waiting at the doors.
“Hello, Miss Sweeney. I’m President Stephenson’s secretary. Please come with me,” they said.
Lina followed the secretary to Hadwin Stephenson’s office door. After gently knocking on the door twice, the secretary twisted the doorknob and said to Lina, “Miss Sweeney, please enter.”
“I can go in?” asked Lina. After all, although the secretary had knocked on the door twice, there was no response from Hadwin Stephenson.
“The president said you can enter at any time,” the secretary said.
Lina pressed her red lips together and went in.
The secretary gently closed the office door, speculating that this woman would probably be the mistress of Stephenson Group someday.
After all, even when he was dating the heiress of the Jackson family, he had never once allowed Miss Jackson to enter his office as he wished.
Besides… the secretary had also seen the news about the president and Miss Sweeney! All the employees could see that this woman held a different place in their boss’ heart.
Lina walked into the office, only to see Hadwin Stephenson lying on the couch. He was covered with a thin blanket and seemed to be resting.
She instantly wondered if she should breathe a sigh of relief.
‘He’s asleep. At least I don’t have to talk to him. I’ll just leave the clothes here. It’ll still count as me returning them myself!’
She gently put the clothes in her hand on the coffee table and was about to leave, but her eyes could not help falling on him.
He was sleeping. His beautiful eyes were closed, and his long shadows cast shadows.
She still remembered how she had liked to gently poke and touch his face when he slept beside her. She had said that she was taking advantage of him.
She would even do silly poses and take photos with him while he was asleep and laugh at them afterward.
‘Our past… was wonderful. It was like the best dream.
‘But we all have to wake up from our dreams, don’t we?
‘Even if those eyes are looking at me. Looking… at me?’
Lina instantly came to her senses. She realized Hadwin Stephenson had already opened his eyes. What was even more embarra**ing was that her fingers had somehow reached over to touch his cheek. She was pinching him.
‘Gosh, that’s why we should get rid of bad habits!’
Lina wanted to withdraw her hand, but Hadwin Stephenson seized it first. “Are you going to hara** me even when I’m asleep?”
“No… No…” Her face went red instantly. “I just wanted to return the clothes from last time. They… They’ve been dry-cleaned, and because I used to do that when you were asleep, so… Uh… It’s just a habit of mine… Uh, no…”
Lina only thought she had made things worse. She did not even know what she was talking about anymore.
Hadwin Stephenson sat up and raised his long arm, pulling Lina into his arms. “So you’ve kept that habit all these years, have you?”
“Hadwin Stephenson, let go of me!” Lina struggled.
However, her strength was nothing to him. He held her tighter instead.
“Lina, I’ve always been your habit, haven’t I? No matter how many years have pa**ed, those habits are still there,” muttered Hadwin Stephenson as he buried his face in Lina’s neck, taking in her scent. “You’re my habit too. I can’t get rid of you after so many years.”
It seemed that only by holding her like this and taking in her scent could he stop feeling lonely and be at ease.
Line’s heart trembled, feeling as though she was about to be bewitched by his voice. His embrace was so tight that he seemed to be trembling…
“Y’m gonna slap you if you don’t let go!” She bit her lip and made a threatening remark Ate suddenly chuckled and lifted his handsome face, which was instantly so close to her. “You can do it if you want.”
She froze and stared blankly at the face that was right in front of her the co slap him just by raising her hand but she could not #wwf the feeling of the time she slapped him still lingered on how much I’m entering to embrace you the seam had tell his face, leaving only What Het kale hart humma pats and his harshead Instead of answering her question, he said, “I’m not afraid of suffering. What I fear most in life is not being able to be with you. Do you… understand?”
Lina took a deep breath and said sternly, “You wouldn’t have broken up with me if what you fear most is not being able to be with me. Hadwin Stephenson, what you fear most is losing the wealth and power you’ve worked so hard to gain.”
His eyes darkened, and his face seemed to grow paler. “How can I protect you if I don’t have all this wealth and power? Lina, you just don’t understand how important these are!”
Without them, Hadwin Stephenson would be just a nobody whom people could trample on. How could he protect her if he could not even protect himself?
“Protect me?” Lina smiled bitterly. “Did you break up with me when I was lying in the hospital bed to protect me?”
“I-” He opened his mouth, but she quickly cut him short.
“If the breakup was supposed to protect me, then I’d rather you not protect me! If love needs to be protected by power and wealth, then it’s too fragile!” She was not afraid of death but of being casually abandoned after loving someone deeply!
“Lina, you know nothing!” said Hadwin Stephenson.
Lina said, “Yes, I don’t know you, but you don’t know me either, Hadwin Stephenson. I’ve brought the clothes here. You don’t need to return my clothes to me anymore. Just throw them away somewhere. They’re worthless anyway. As for the future…”
She paused and gazed at him. “You’re now the president of the Stephenson family, and there’s no threat to the status of the Stephenson family anymore. You can find another suitable woman. You don’t have to pay an ordinary woman like me any more attention, and I’ll also find someone who can live a peaceful life with me-”
“Stop it!” Hadwin Stephenson suddenly raised his hand and covered Lina’s mouth. His hand with distinct joints quivered. “Lina, I told you to give me time. I’ll prove that my feelings for your have never changed. I’ve done everything just to be with you!”
Lina pulled down his hand. “But I can’t afford to give you time. Hadwin Stephenson, I don’t want to be with you anymore.”
With that said, she pushed him away forcefully, got up, and quickly left the office.
He sat on the couch as his hands shook and his teeth clenched, trying to suppress the pain in his body! Blood curse!
It was another price he had to pay so that Katherine Jackson would save Lina. He had no idea where Katherine Jackson got it, but she got an insect he had never seen before. It fed on Lina’s blood and Katherine Jackson had him swallow the insect.
“Hadwin Stephenson, this is a blood curse. It’s extremely sensitive to the smell of the owner’s blood. From now on, the blood curse will cause your body excruciating pain once you have any physical contact with Lina. You can never be with her!”
Katherine Jackson had told him.
He thought he had no chance to be with Lina. He thought all he could do was punish those who had hurt her and make them pay the price.
However, he later found out that the blood curse would not last forever. It was possible to get rid of it!
However, things like blood curses had always been obscure. Few people knew about them, so it was naturally difficult to find someone to lift them.
Therefore, he needed to set Katherine Jackson up so she would offer to get rid of the blood curse for him!
Once the blood curse on him was lifted, he could stop suffering whenever he touched her and could truly be with her.
She would never know how painful it was when he was in the car with her that night.
Every hug and kiss had hurt him as if reminding him not to approach and touch her.
However, he was willing to bear the pain… to be with her.
Even if the pain was excruciating, he willingly endured it.
It had hurt again earlier, but his heart kept telling him over and over that this was the last time it would hurt. Once he got rid of the blood curse, he would not feel this pain again!
He could hug her as much as he used to and… never leave her!
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.