Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
She quickly denied it and said, “Ah… It’s… It’s nothing. I… I just think you look good, especially in black and white.”
“Really?” He stared at her thoughtfully.
She nodded, but he still saw through the guilty expression.
Brian looked down and said nothing as he entered the elevator with Valda Theller and arrived at her apartment door. Valda Theller opened the door, and the two went in.
“Put the ingredients on the marble counter in the kitchen,” said Valda Theller before putting down the things she was holding. She suddenly felt a shadow loom over her. Brian came close and pressed her against the marble table.
“You know what? You’re a terrible liar. You have a guilty look on your face whenever you lie,” he said as his thin lips parted.
Valda Theller bit her lip awkwardly and looked flustered.
“So you might as well just tell me anything you want to say and save me all the guessing, okay?” Brian continued saying, his dark phoenix eyes staring straight at her.
She felt her heart beating fast again at that moment, and his eyes seemed to see right through her.
Taking a deep breath, Valda Theller blushed and said, “Actually… I just wanted to ask… whether you changed me out of my gown and into my pajamas… last night… because… because I don’t remember anything…”
It took her a lot of effort to say that.
“So that’s what you wanted to ask.” Brian suddenly understood.
Valda Theller nodded and immediately added, “Of course, it… it doesn’t matter if you don’t tell me. It doesn’t matter at all…”
She said as she lowered her head, not wanting him to see her embarrassed expression and flushed face.
“You changed out of your clothes yourself,” said Brian.
“Myself?” Valda Theller suddenly raised her head and stared at Brian in disbelief.
He said, “Yes, but… it’s not like I wasn’t involved. After I brought you home yesterday, you woke up and started yelling that the gown wasn’t comfortable, so you tried to get it off. But the gown had a zipper at the back and you couldn’t pull it down anymore after pulling a third of it. Then you insisted that I pull the zipper for you.”
“And then…” she asked in a mutter.
“And then?” Brian had a faint smile he did not even notice. When she started to strip herself out of the gown last night, he turned away and did not look at her.
However, she walked over to him when she could not get the zipper down. Her hands grabbed his waist as she yelled, “I… I need you to help unzip my dress or… I’ll feel uncomfortable…”
He felt as if a small animal was rubbing at him. Valda Theller was so soft that he wanted to hug her.
He closed his eyes and tried to unzip her dress, but her hands began tugging his tie when he turned around. “Just… Just cover your eyes with this.”
“Don’t worry. I’ve closed my eyes and won’t look,” Brian said.
She mumbled, “No, I can only be relieved… after you… blindfold yourself… I… I don’t have a good figure. My boobs… uh… they’re rather small. I can’t let you see them… or… or you’ll be disappointed.
But… don’t worry… I… I’ll try to make them grow a little bigger…”
He had been a little irritated by her distrust but did not know whether to laugh or cry when he heard her words.
“Then you said you don’t have a good figure and your boobs are small. You were worried I’d be disappointed. It wasn’t enough for you that I had closed my eyes. You wouldn’t be at ease until I put my tie over my eyes,” said Brian.
Valda Theller felt like killing herself. ‘Gosh! What did I say?’
If she had known, she would have pretended she knew nothing and would not have asked.
“You…” She looked at him sheepishly.
“I covered my eyes with a tie and pulled the zipper down for you. Then you took off the gown and ran to the wardrobe to take your pajamas before changing into them. You only removed my tie when you were done. So you don’t have to worry about me seeing anything,” said Brian.
Valda Theller was slightly relieved. It turned out she changed into her pajamas herself after getting drunk!
She stammered, “Well… Forget what I said last night… Forget it all… I… I’ll prepare the hotpot for tonight first.”
With that said, she hurriedly went round Brian and immersed herself in cleaning the ingredients.
Brian leaned against a wall and watched. He failed to mention that she did not remove his tie from over his eyes as soon as she had changed into her pajamas. Instead, she had thrust herself into his arms.
He was caught off guard as she pressed him on the couch.
The next moment, her lips were on his.
It was the first time he had been kissed while blindfolded. He could not see, but his other senses became sharper.
Her scent, warmth, and nasally voice became very clear to him.
He could not help being absorbed in the kiss. Valda Theller’s hand tugged off his tie and caressed his eyes when it was over.
“Brian, you have such beautiful eyes. They’re so beautiful! Do you know… I… I was drawn to them the first time I saw them on that rainy day.”
“Drawn?” he murmured.
“Yeah, drawn. I just thought… your eyes looked like they were going to cry. I… I didn’t want to see you cry. Such beautiful… eyes shouldn’t be crying…” she said as she kissed his eyes.
He shuddered. The woman had said not long ago that she would never make such intimate gestures unless he had fallen for her.
However, she was so intimate with him after getting drunk.
Instead of rejecting her, he was… expectant.
‘Expectant… What am I expecting? Am I expecting her to be more intimate with me?’ “I’m not going to cry,” he murmured. He had no reason to cry.
“R-Really?” she muttered as her fingers began to play with his eyelashes. “Then you… you’re not allowed… not allowed to cry from now on. You’re a puppy If… If you do!”
He was torn between tears and laughter by her remark.
“Alright, you’re drunk. Go back to bed and sleep first.” He gestured for her to get up, but her arms wrapped around his neck while her head leaned on his shoulder. She mumbled, “I’ll… treasure you very much. I’ll treasure you more than anyone else… so… don’t cry… I won’t leave you. I won’t…”
Her voice grew quieter and quieter until it finally faded.
However, he was in a trance for a long time.
‘Does this woman want to treasure me more than anyone else? Does she love me that much?’
After a long while, he carried the woman who had fallen asleep back to bed and carefully covered her with a thin blanket. “If you won’t leave me, let me fall in love with you first.”
“By the way, did I do anything to you last night other than cover your eyes with a tie?” Valda Theller turned her head suddenly and asked Brian.
He smiled faintly. “No, you didn’t do anything else.”
Valda Theller was a little reserved at the beginning of dinner, but she loosened up afterward.
Come to think of it, Brian had seen her at her worst anyway, so she had nothing to be ashamed of. It was pointless being embarrassed about what had happened anyway.
“By the way, are you sure you don’t want to take back the gown and jewelry from yesterday?” Valda Theller asked.
nvic “Do you think I’ll ever take back what I’ve given away?” Brian asked rhetorically.
Valda Theller said, “Thank you for the gifts… then. By the way, the comic fiesta is next week. The magazine will be holding a small book signing for me. Will you be free to stop by after the book signing?”
“Comic fiesta?” he asked.
“The comic fiesta venue doesn’t close until 10 o’clock, so we can take a look around until then. Of course, I’ll just look around myself after the book signing if you’re unavailable.”
She had often attended comic fiestas by herself. If Camille were free, she would take Camille with her.
However… she wanted to check out the comic fiesta with him. It was as if she wanted him to get to know her hobbies, and it would be great if he liked them too.
“Okay, I understand. Let me know the specific time and address,” said Brian.
Valda Theller instantly had a bright smile when she heard the news.