Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Grace, do you remember when I accompanied you to meet Mason at the entrance of the primary school? I was already suspicious then, so I got someone to take Mason’s blood for a DNA test. To be on the safe side, I chose three labs, locally and from abroad as well. All three reports have confirmed that Mason is our child,” Jason said on the phone.
Grace instantly burst into tears.
‘Mason’s… really our child! But I didn’t recognize him until now! Isn’t there a saying that a mother and child are linked by their hearts? Why didn’t I, a mother, recognize my own child?’
She had watched Mason get scolded and attacked by other older children. She had also seen him covered with bruises…
Those scenes were constantly playing back in Grace’s mind, piercing her heart.
If… she had recognized Mason earlier, would he have suffered less?
She wished to be able to suffer the pain her son endured in his stead. He should not have had to go through all that at his age!
“Jay, nothing can happen to Mason. Nothing! I… I failed to protect him. If I had insisted on adopting him and bringing him back to the Reed family, maybe he wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped!” said Grace as she choked up.
“Grace, stop crying. I won’t let anything happen to Mason. Trust me!” said Jason.
Grace sobbed. “Okay, I trust you. I trust you… I… I’m going over to Mason’s place to make sure he’s really… been kidnapped.”
After all, the note did not say who the child was.
“Okay, I’ll be right over too,” said Jason.
When the call was over, Grace burst into tears again. When she heard Kyla talk about Mason previously, there was nothing but sympathy in her heart-sympathy for the child who was suffering from all these at such a young age.
However, that sympathy had now become a sharp pain.
When the car reached the apartment where the He family lived, Grace almost ran out of the car and headed for the stairs.
The He family lived in an old apartment with no elevator and only stairs. They lived on the fifth floor. When Grace ran to the fifth floor, she only heard shouting from one of the units.
“Kidnapping? Who would kidnap an orphan? What good would kidnapping the boy do? You didn’t gang up with that brat to extort money from your father, did you? Let me tell you, that money is your father’s and mine. It has nothing to do with you!”
The sound insulation in an old apartment like this was horrible. Grace could make out that the bitterly scornful voice was the voice of Rosalind Bush, Mason’s adoptive mother.
“I saw someone carry Mason into the car with my own eyes. Mason must have been kidnapped!” Veronica Barlow’s worried voice rang out. “If you won’t save Mason, I will! I’m gonna use the money my mom left me to save Mason! I know my mother left me a lot of money!”
“Your mother? Your mother’s long dead!” snapped Rosalind Bush.
“Even if my mother is dead, everything she left me is still here. This house is my mother’s! I’ll sell the house so I’ll have the money to save Mason!” shouted Veronica Barlow.
“You’re even thinking of selling the house? Have you lost your mind? Even if the brat was kidnapped, we don’t have enough money to save him. He’s not even related to us by blood!”
“Says who? Mason is my brother!”
“Yetian’s your brother. He’s related to you by blood. Who the hell does that brat think he is?”
Then, there was the sound of a slap and the door opened. Veronica Barlow ran out of the house and was stunned at the sight of Grace.
“Aunt… aunt Cummins!” muttered Veronica Barlow. One of her cheeks had a distinct red mark caused by the slap earlier.
Rosalind Bush’s voice came from behind. “Where are you going, brat? I’m telling you, it’s no use even if you go to your mother’s lawyer…”
Rosalind Bush rushed over and tried to pull Veronica Barlow over.
Grace raised her hand, smacked Rosalind Bush’s hand away, and pulled Veronica Barlow behind her. “What are you going to do to her?”
“She’s my daughter, and what does an outsider like you have to do with what I’m going to do with her? F*ck off! I’m educating my daughter!” said Rosalind Bush.
“I’m not your daughter!” snapped Veronica Barlow. She only had one mother.
“You brat!” Rosalind Bush wanted to beat Veronica Barlow up!
Grace protected Veronica Barlow’s thin body as she raised her hand to grab Rosalind Bush’s hand. “Stop it! I won’t let you go if you touch her again!”
“You won’t let me go? Who do you think you are? Let me tell you, as long as she has the surname He, I’ll beat her up whenever I want!” snapped Rosalind Bush as she countered Grace and twisted her hand.
Grace’s hand, which was injured, instantly hurt when Rosalind Bush did that.
Rosalind Bush became more aggressive when she saw that and started waving her hand.
Grace protected Veronica Barlow in her arms tightly. The child was Mason’s only warmth in the He family. She was the one who had always desperately protected Mason, so she would protect this child no matter what!
Instead of feeling the pain as expected, Grace heard Rosalind Bush’s cries. “My… My hands are going to break…”
Archer Barlow happened to come out of the house at this moment and saw a stranger gripping his wife’s hands. His wife’s face had turned crimson as she cried out in pain.
“Who… Who are you guys? L-Let go of my wife!” shouted Archer Barlow.
However, the stranger who was holding Rosalind Bush’s hands did not move and ignored Archer Barlow. He just looked at the other handsome man standing beside him as if waiting for his orders.
Archer Barlow naturally saw that the handsome, elegant, and indifferent man in a dapper suit was the one in charge, so he said, “Ask him to let go of my wife, or I’ll call the police.”
“You can try calling the police, then.” Jason glanced coldly at Archer Barlow, which made him shudder.
Grace did not expect Jason to come so soon. Her eyes instantly reddened. “Jay… Mason has really been kidnapped!”
Even just by overhearing the conversation, she could figure out what had happened.
Jason said, “We’ll find him. Are you alright? Did this woman do anything to you just now?”
Before Grace could speak, Veronica Barlow, who was being protected by Grace, said, “My stepmother wanted to beat me up and aunt Cummins helped me stop her. She twisted aunt Cummins’s hand.”
As soon as Veronica Barlow said that, the pressure around them instantly lowered. It was as if the air had turned cold.
“She hurt your hand,” Jason said as he held Grace’s hand and checked it. “Does it hurt?”
“It hurt a little earlier, but it’s better now,” Grace said nonchalantly, not wanting Jay to feel guilty about it.
He had been feeling guilty about her hands for a few days now.
As for the wrongs committed by this woman named Rosalind Bush, she would make her pay the price for all of them!
Jason turned to look at Rosalind Bush. His delicate peach blossom eyes were filled with intense rage. “You deserve to die!”
Rosalind Bush was frightened by the rage in Jason’s eyes but still said stubbornly, “She wanted to protect the brat. What… What does it have to do with her when I’m teaching my daughter a lesson…”
Jason did not bother to listen to her nonsense. He ordered his subordinates, “Do it!”
The bodyguard, who had been holding Rosalind Bush’s hands, snapped them. Rosalind Bush instantly screamed and almost fainted from the pain.
Grace did not expect Jason to be so decisive. However, she did not sympathize with Rosalind Bush. She was only worried that Veronica Barlow, who was in her arms, would be scared.
Archer Barlow was so frightened that he immediately hugged Rosalind Bush. The neighbor next door heard the noise and opened the door to see what was going on. Jason ordered, “Clear the place and make everyone on this floor leave!”
‘Clear the place?’
Archer Barlow was shocked when he heard these words!
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