Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“In the future, anything is possible. Maybe we’ll be able to find Lawrence soon,” Grace said. “My parents will continue to send people to search for Lawrence, and the police will also continue to search.
With so many people looking, we’ll eventually find him.”
Grace knows deep down that this is just a beautiful hope, and the possibility of it happening is actually very small.
But now, in any case, she has to give her daughter this hope.
Jasper sniffled and his tears finally subsided a bit. “Really?”
“Really, Mommy believes that we can definitely find Lawrence!”
said Grace.
“Yes, we will definitely find him!” Jasper nodded heavily. “When we find Lawrence, I…I want to tell him that I want to be friends with him again! And since his parents are no longer around, how about we bring him to our home to live? I will go to school with him and we can play the piano together…”
Although she was very angry with him before, now she just wants him to be safe!
“Okay, when we find Lawrence, Mommy and Daddy will bring him to our home to live with us,”
promised Grace.
At night, after my daughter cried herself to sleep, Grace found it hard to fall asleep herself.
The door to the room was pushed open and Jason walked in.
“Did Jasper fall asleep?”
“Well, I just woke up not long ago. Today, I’ll sleep in her room with her. I’m worried that she might wake up in the middle of the night and cry again,” Grace said.
“Okay,” Jason responded, “then you should also go to bed early and don’t worry too much.”
As he spoke, he walked closer to Grace and leaned down to give her a kiss on the forehead. “I’ll head back now,” he said.
“Wait a minute,” Grace stopped Jason and said, “Jason, what should we tell Jasper if we still can’t find
Lawrence after some time?”
She’s afraid that it will have a bigger impact on her daughter if she does it later.
“Anyway, there are some things that she always understands and learns to accept,” Jason said, such as leaving and death…
“But…”
“Grace, Jasper is our daughter. She needs to grow up slowly and become stronger. Otherwise, what will she do when she faces more difficulties in the future?” Jason said, looking at his sleeping daughter. “As a father, I want to protect her and make her happy for her whole life, but life is full of unexpected events that we cannot control.”
Grace sighed, knowing that Jason was right.
In this world, nothing is ever perfect.
There are always things we need to face, whether it’s sadness or happiness… they are all part of our own experiences!
She just hopes that her daughter can be stronger by that time.
After the official announcement by the police, the tragedy of the Abbott family became a hot topic in tMason Swansonty for a while. Valda naturally became aware of it.
After seeing the news, she made a phone call to Grace to confirm that the people mentioned in the news were indeed the Abbott couple and Lawrence. She felt a sense of sadness and regret.
After all, that was a child she had seen before, but now they are missing and their whereabouts are unknown, and there is a high possibility that they have been silenced by someone.
“What about Jasper?” Valda asked.
“I’m still feeling sad. It will probably take some time before I can calm down,” said Grace.
“Valda suggests that it would be better for the child to spend more time with peers of the same age, which may help her feel better.”
“Well, Mick and Mason will be accompanying me, and William is also planning to come to Emerald
City,” said Grace.
Her own two sons, however, are not talkative.
These days, Mick has been spending time with Jasper both at school and at home. Even though he doesn’t talk much, he stays by her side and is always there for her. He even sleeps in Jasper’s room at night, holding a pillow and blanket.
As for Mason, Grace didn’t expect him to come all the way to The Reed House just to accompany
Jasper.
After all, Mason doesn’t usually come over to the Reed family’s side on his own. He mostly likes to hang out with the Barlow family and be with their daughter Veronica.
However, this time Mason came alone with a bodyguard accompanying him.
He also played a piano piece for Jasper and awkwardly said, “If you like listening to piano music, I can play for you.”
This made Jasper burst into tears and hug Mason on the spot.
Normally, Mason only allows hugs from Veronica. If anyone else tries to hug him, he will resist.
In the past, Jasper often wanted to hug her brother, but Mason always rejected her.
But this time, Mason stood quietly, allowing Jasper to hug him, which made Grace notice Mason’s change.
Over the years, Mason gradually developed feelings towards his family and was no longer indifferent towards them.
“By the way, you’re almost at your due date, right?” Grace said to
Valda on the other end of the phone.
“Yeah, in a week it will be the due date. These days, I’m on high alert at all times,” said Valda.
“Then I wish you all the best and please let me know when you give birth.”
“Okay, definitely,” said Valda.
After the call ended, Valda saw Brian walking down from upstairs.
As her due date was approaching, he stopped going to the office three days ago and brought all his work home to handle.
Even if there are any meetings to discuss, they are all video conferences.
“Who were you on the phone with just now?” Brian walked over to Valda and asked.
“Talking about the Abbott family with Grace,” Valda said. “It feels like life is so unpredictable. People who were lively and energetic before suddenly disappear.”
Brian’s eyes darkened slightly, “Yes, life is unpredictable.” When she fell into the river while trying to save Grace’s child, he couldn’t help but feel the same way.
Before, everything was fine. Before, she was still smiling at him.
But in the blink of an eye, she disappeared from his sight, leaving nothing behind.
Fortunately, God returned her to him! Otherwise…
Thinking of this, Brian leaned down, opened his arms, and hugged
Valda.
Just because Valda was pregnant, he hugged her cautiously, being careful not to hold her too tightly for fear of pressing on her belly.
“What’s wrong?” Valda asked curiously.
Although they were discussing the Abbott family, he suddenly hugged her. This embrace, for some reason, made her feel both sweet and fragile.
“I won’t let anything happen to you, even if everything else is unpredictable,” said Brian.
Valda suddenly understood what was going on. He was probably thinking about the incident when she fell into the water years ago.
Valda lifted her hands and hugged Brian, saying “Mmm, I know you won’t let anything happen to me, and I won’t let anything happen to myself either. Brian, we and our child will be just fine.”
And his response was to gently kiss her lips.
At night, Valda lay in bed while Brian held a children’s book and read stories from it, claiming it was for prenatal education.
According to Hadwin, reading more fairy tales during pregnancy can help cultivate a child’s cultural literacy, and in the future, the child may be more interested in knowledge and culture.
However, when Brian looked at Hadwin and Lina’s daughter, he didn’t think that the little one was interested in knowledge or culture. As for cultural refinement, he couldn’t see any signs of it at the moment.
It is said that in kindergarten, Shengsheng was a little bully.
The child named Chandler seems to enjoy reading and is said to have skipped a grade in school.
Despite being young, he has a strong knowledge base.
Lina often sighs and says, “That’s someone else’s child.”
Fortunately, someone else’s child will also be her son-in-law in the future. It is said that Lina is hoping to transform her own daughter’s stubborn genes with
Chandler’s good learning genes.
However, although prenatal education by reading fairy tales may seem useless to Brian, given the existence of a negative example like Tina.
But he still reads a few stories to the unborn child every day, and can’t help but imagine the scene of holding a soft little one and telling stories after the child is born.
He has imagined this scene many times since Valda became pregnant.
Just then, Valda, who was listening to the fairy tale, suddenly changed her expression and let out a sharp scream.
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“What’s wrong?” Brian immediately became nervous. “Are you uncomfortable somewhere? Or is your leg cramping again?” He said, trying to lift the blanket covering her legs.
Valda’s face turned pale and she said, “No… it’s not cramping. I think, maybe, my water broke.”
Upon hearing this, Brian quickly told Valda to lie down and placed a pillow under her to prevent more amniotic fluid from flowing out.
Then he immediately made a phone call.
Before this, Brian had prepared various emergency plans, so Valda quickly got into a professional ambulance and headed to the designated hospital.
Valda couldn’t help but sigh again as she looked at the car.
In her previous understanding, if her water broke or there was an emergency, she would call 120 and an ambulance would be dispatched.