Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Was it because of my touch?” he murmured, walking up to her and looking at her pale face. Those almond-shaped eyes seemed to have grown darker. Her small nose and those pitiful lips… Only by kissing them could one understand how wonderful they felt.
One would become addicted and obsessed with them.
However, why did he seem to be the only one addicted to it? Why was he still so easily influenced by her and could even go out of control?
He raised his hand, and his fingertips gently brushed against her lips, wiping away the remaining water droplets from the gargling. “But it doesn’t matter if you hate it! We’re husband and wife. It’s only normal and natural for us to touch each other, isn’t it? Even if you’re unwilling, are you going to endure it for the sake of the children?”
With that, he turned to leave as though he had no intention of listening to her answer. “Alright, it’s getting late. Go to bed. I have some things to take care of in the study.”
However, before he could take another step, a pair of slender arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind. “I don’t hate it,” said Grace as she pretty much buried her face in Jason’s broad back. “It’s just morning sickness. I have no way to control it. But at least I didn’t hate the kiss earlier.”
He suddenly stiffened as if he had not expected her to say such a thing.
After a pause, she continued saying, “Perhaps there are certain things that are natural between a married couple, but if we have no affection for each other and if it’s only to satisfy desire, then how will we be different from wild animals? At least, I think that kind of… intimacy between a married couple requires some affection… I don’t want to do it for the kids, and I don’t think you’d want me to either, am I right?”
She knew he was proud. He was Emerald City’s Master Reed. The wealth and power he had in his hands were enough to make him proud.
How could a man like that have a woman reluctantly do something like that with him for the sake of someone else? That would probably be tantamount to an insult to him.
He slowly turned around and looked at the woman in front of him. Those almond-shaped eyes were so clear. It was as if all her thoughts and ideas were displayed in front of him without the slightest concealment.
He said, “Then what kind of feelings are needed for you to do it? Love? Do you think I have to love you and vice versa for you to do it?”
She was silent.
“Grace, are you going to love me again?” asked Jason.
At that moment, her heart was suddenly beating very fast.
After Jason left, Grace gently touched the space where her heart was and found that it was still beating wildly.
‘Am I… going to love this man again? For the rest of my life? If we have to be tied together, can I still love him?”
If she had thought they would always be two horizons, now they were probably too intertwined to be separate horizons.
In the study, Jason took out a box from the safe. He gently opened the box and found a brilliant diamond ring in it.
Frozen Heart-the wedding ring he had prepared for her before and designed to her liking. If nothing had happened back then, the ring would have been on her finger by now.
Jason was lost in thought as he looked at the ring in his hand. He gradually closed his fingers and held the diamond ring tightly, letting the edges and corners of the diamond ring prick his palm.
Grace went to the detention center the next day.
It was because the video of Stella framing Chase Harper had been accidentally exposed at the birthday party, so Stella’s original case against Chase Harper was dismissed. Chase Harper was released right away.
Chase Harper looked so haggard when Grace saw him. His chin was covered in stubble, but the way he looked at her was still warm.
“Thank you, Grace!” said Chase Harper.
Grace said quiltily, “I haven’t helped much. It’s mainly because of the video that was exposed. Besides, you were set up because of me. This would never have happened if you didn’t know me.”
‘But what’s with the video? Looking at the video, the camera was probably secretly installed in the car. Who on earth installed that in Stella’s car? What was their original purpose?’
Grace had no clue about these yet.
Chase Harper hurriedly said, “No, no! You’ve been very helpful. If it hadn’t been for you, I would’ve been worried sick in jail!”
Grace knew Chase Harper did not want her to feel guilty about it.
Without saying anything more, she helped Chase Harper with the procedures and walked out of the detention center with him.
“Grace, is Brian really suing your cousin for fraud?” asked Chase
Harper.
“I think so, but I just read it from the gossip online. I don’t know the details, and I’ve stopped talking to Brian,” said Grace.
“Is it… because of my case?” Chase Harper asked somewhat uneasily.
“No, don’t overthink it. He and I were never that close,” said Grace.
Chase Harper wanted to say something but ended up saying nothing.
After saying goodbye to Chase Harper, Grace called Kyla Corbyn to tell her that Chase Harper was all right now.
After all, Kyla Corbyn had been feeling guilty about Chase Harper’s case these days, thinking that if she had not agreed to have Chase Harper pick up Nelson from the hospital, then Chase Harper might not have gotten set up.
Grace’s call got through, and Kyla Corbyn was pleasantly surprised. “Really? Has he really been released?”
Grace said, “Yeah. Chase Harper won’t be facing any more troubles now. There’s just another thing. Lina… has been hospitalized,”
“What?” Kyla Corbyn was surprised. Besides worrying about Chase Harper’s case, she had been busy working these days, so she had no time to read the news and naturally never followed the news about Hadwin Stephenson’s disappearance.
Therefore, when she learned from Grace that Hadwin Stephenson was missing and Lina was hospitalized with serious injuries and even in a coma right now, she was shocked.
“Which hospital is Lina in? I… I’ll go and see her,” Kyla Corbyn said hurriedly. Although she and Lina had not known each other for long and had only met a few times, Kyla Corbyn liked Lina. She was a straightforward and unscheming friend. She sometimes even thought she was very much like her when she was younger.
Therefore, when she saw Hadwin Stephenson and Lina together, she found such love to be great! She really hoped they could be happy.
However, she never expected such a thing to happen.
Grace gave her the name of the hospital and said, “Why don’t I come and pick you up now? I’m free anyway.”
A little later, Kyla Corbyn was slightly surprised when a black car appeared at the neighborhood gate she resided in. Bodyguards and drivers were following Grace. She looked at Grace in confusion. “This is…”
Grace said, “Jay arranged it. I’m married to him now, and I’m three months pregnant.”
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