Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Just like how he chose the best timing to become the patriarch of the Stephenson family in one fell swoop while his aunt and her two sons could only live under his nose.
“Therefore, you chose to believe Grace when she was imprisoned?” asked Hadwin Stephenson.
“Yeah, I believe in Grace. If she said it wasn’t her, it certainly wasn’t her! Isn’t that what real friends are supposed to be like?” said Lina.
Hadwin Stephenson was silent. ‘This silly woman. Does she know how many people in this world have been betrayed by their best friend?’
Just because Grace had helped her in the past, she was willing to make unconditional sacrifices for Grace. This made her seem like a fool to him.
However… it was because of her ‘silliness’
that made him, who was familiar with people’s dark side, that he could not help being sentimentally attached to her.
It was as if staying by her side, he could really relax and ignore the conspiracies and power struggle.
Sighing, Hadwin Stephenson raised his hand and touched Lina’s bangs. “Don’t be so impulsive as today. You were lucky today. Jason only let you go for Grace’s sake.”
Lina hesitated for a moment before nodding. She knew that she had acted impulsively today.
However, did she regret it? Not really. She was not afraid that Jason would lay a hand on her, but she was a little afraid that Jason would do something to her parents.
“If you’re angry, furious, and want to deal with someone, tell me. I don’t mind being a sword in your hand that can help you deal with people. Just don’t be reckless, all right?” Hadwin Stephenson said earnestly.
‘This girl’s impulse even made me break out in a cold sweat.’
Lina was shocked. She looked at the person in front of her with those round eyes, remembering that Hadwin Stephenson had shielded her to face
Jason after she slapped the man. He was even willing to bear the consequences of her impulse.
It was such a mess earlier that she was too angry to think about it.
However, now she thought about it in detail, she felt a trace of unspeakable emotion. ‘Doesn’t he want to get even with me? Why does he always seem to protect me?’
“Even if… I’m going against Jason, you’re willing to be the sword in my hand?”
Somehow, the words escaped her mouth.
He took her hand calmly and gently before saying, “Yes, I am. I can be the sword in your hand even if the person you’re dealing with is Jason.”
He could make an enemy of anyone for her as long as that was her wish.
This was because… he was so in love with her.
Yes, he loved her.
However, he had never really told her about this deep love.
He was angry with her, hated her, and resented her, but in the end, he found that all these feelings were no match for his love for her.
During their three years apart, he thought he hated her, but at the end of the day, he was still in love with her. He thought about her every day. Gradually, this love unconsciously became deeper and deeper.
“Lina, I’ll be your sword,” he said.
Suddenly, Lina’s heart was beating violently!
His eyes and his voice was like an invisible net catching her firmly.
Grace was woken up the next day by her phone alarm. She was still a little dizzy, and there was a note by her bedside from Lina, letting her know that it was
Lina who sent her home the night before.
Besides the note, there was a new set of clothes and a new pair of shoes on the nightstand.
It was Lina’s gift to her as she had gotten a new job.
Looking at these things, Grace’s eyes slightly warmed again.
Grace still had a dull headache from the drinking, so after a quick washing up, she got straight on the bus without buying breakfast.
As the bus moved slowly down the road, the memories of last night came back to her mind.
She vaguely remembered that after coming out of Drunken Days last night, she seemed to have… bumped into
Jason.
However, after that… her memory was a little fuzzy. She seemed to have said a lot of things to him, but she could not remember anything.
Grace rubbed her forehead that was in pain. She had already said those words anyway. It was useless for her to think about this now.
She met him yesterday by chance, but she probably would not have another chance to meet him again.
Grace felt another pang in her heart as she thought of when he had helped her to stop the drunk man in Drunken Days yesterday.
It seemed that even after their breakup, she still relied on him to help her out of trouble.
‘However… no more!
‘I have to rely on my own from now on!’
she thought to herself silently.
Once she arrived at the office, some colleagues were already there. Those who had gathered together to chat with each other stopped as soon as she came
They looked at her in unison. There were curiosity and inquisition, but also disdain and contempt in their eyes.
Grace was quite used to all sorts of strange looks from people.
She put down her bag, turned on her computer, and headed to the pantry to get herself a gla** of water.
Just then, a female colleague who had dinner with Grace yesterday came up to her curiously and asked, “Grace, are you… really Jason’s girlfriend? Did Jason help foot the bill yesterday?”
‘After all, nowadays, there are many Cinderellas who disdain the domineering presidents’ money and prefer to live a miserable life while dating them.’
The female colleague thought that this might be the case. Earlier, several of them got together and talked about who exactly paid the bill last night.
“No.” Grace denied it. ‘He once was, but not anymore!’
“Eh? No?” The female colleague looked surprised, not expecting Grace to deny so straightforwardly. “But Andrea
Schwartz said…”
“Does my boyfriend have to be whoever she says?” asked Grace.
The other woman was stunned, not knowing how to continue the conversation.
Grace walked out of the pantry with a gla** of water in her hand. She returned to her seat and began the tasks at hand.
Dating was way in the past now. All she wanted to do now was work well and work hard in this city… to become a lawyer again!
Only in this way could she be worthy of those who loved her!
Lina was distracted at work all morning. Her mind was full of Hadwin
Stephenson’s face and the things he said.
‘He said… he can be the sword in my hand even if the person I’m dealing with is Jason!’
Never had a man said such a thing to her!
‘This sounds like sweet talk no matter how I look at it! He would have to involve the entire Stephenson Group if he’s to go against Jason. No rational person would be willing to suffer such a loss.’
However… Hadwin Stephenson made her feel like… it was real when he said so.
It was as if he could involve the
Stephenson Group he spent so many years and effort to get and risk losing everything for her.
Usually, the biggest possibility a man would do this for a woman was because… he had fallen in love with her!
‘Could Hadwin Stephenson have possibly fallen for me?’
Lina was immediately doubtful when she thought of this.
‘There’s a possibility that Hadwin Stephenson hates me. As for loving me… It’s most likely that he said these things to make me fall in love with him, and once I do, he’ll finally get his revenge!
‘That’s the most plausible explanation, right?’
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