Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“N-Nothing.” She forced a smile. “Time flies. You’ll be out of the hospital tomorrow.”
“Does it? I think it passes slowly,” said Martin Weiss.
Mrs. Weiss, who was in the ward, looked at them and said, “Why don’t you two have a good chat? I’ll go out for a minute.”
Mrs. Weiss got up as she spoke. She looked at Kyla, hinting at her before leaving.
Kyla knew it was time for her to end everything! She would remember their brief time together for the rest of her life.
Taking a deep breath, Kyla placed the food containers on the table of his hospital bed as usual. Then, she opened them one by one to let him eat what she had cooked.
Martin Weiss ate the food. When he finally had the osmanthus rice porridge that Kyla made, he said, “Your osmanthus rice porridge is really good. Whenever I want to have it again, can you make it for me?”
Kyla was silent.
He said, “What’s the matter? Is it too much trouble to do this? If it is, then there’s no need to-”
“Martin Weiss, didn’t you say you’re waiting for my answer?” Kyla asked suddenly as she looked him straight in the eye. “I think I should be able to give you an answer now.”
Martin Weiss froze. Then, his face lit up. “You want to answer me now?”
There was tension and expectation in his eyes. Eventually, it became intense affection. “Kyla… will you start over with me and be a real married couple with me? I promise I’ll never let you down.
I’ll spend the rest of my life loving you and treating you well!”
She felt a soreness spreading in her heart.
The man really loved her, but… she was destined not to give him the answer he wanted.
“No, I won’t.” She heard her voice say, and the soreness in her heart turned to pain.
Martin Weiss’s expression changed instantly. The anticipation and love in his eyes turned to disbelief. It was as if he did not expect her to say no.
She had been… so gentle toward him, cooking for him every day. She was willing to hold his hand and accompany him to sleep… All these made him think she was willing to open her heart to him and that he had a place in her heart!
Her refusal now seemed to have struck him so hard that he froze.
“What… do you mean?” At that moment, he only hoped that he had misunderstood or perhaps heard her wrong!
Kyla calmly repeated, “Martin Weiss, I don’t want to start over with you. After the baby is born, I think… we should just get a divorce. We don’t have to drag it on for a year as we previously agreed.”
Little by little, his face turned pale, and his thin lips opened with difficulty as he muttered, “You… won’t?”
“Yes, I won’t.”
“But you’ve clearly been showing your feelings for me these days!” he said. The things that had happened recently, the way she had been looking at him, and what she had been doing for him all seemed to tell him that he had a place in her heart.
However, she gave him such an answer!
“What I’ve been showing you thus far is just my gratitude to you for saving me. Martin Weiss, I lost all my love for you when I was sent to prison. A broken mirror can’t be fixed, and what’s done can’t be undone. Don’t you understand that when feelings are they’re gone for good?” she said calmly.
Only she knew how much restraint she needed to maintain that calmness.
“Gratitude?” His emotions surged as he reached out and grabbed her. “How could you let me hold your hand to sleep and look worried every time the doctors and nurses change my dressing if you’re only grateful to me?”
“Why not? You got injured because of me. Naturally, I’m concerned about your injury. The reason why I let you hold my hand to sleep is just so you can fall asleep easily and to give your body some rest,” said Kyla as she looked at Martin Weiss with indifferent eyes. “It seems like you’ve misunderstood.”
“Misunderstood? Did I really misunderstand?” he murmured with pain, reluctance, and doubt in his eyes.
The things that happened in the past few days… Was it all just his unrequited love?
“Now that you’ve recovered and are going to be discharged, my ‘repayment’ will probably end here,” she said.
“Repayment?” He suddenly sneered and whispered hoarsely, “So you’re trying to tell me that all you’ve been doing these days is just to repay me?”
She replied, “Yes. Will you please let go of my hand now? I want to put away my food containers.”
However, his hand was still tightly gripping her wrist as his dark eyes stared at her.
A suffocating feeling filled the air.
Kyla frowned. She twisted her wrist but could not break away from his fingers at all.
“Martin Weiss, you…” She had just started speaking when his left hand instantly grabbed the back of her head. He kissed her heavily.
Kyla was stunned.
‘Is he kissing me? But we shouldn’t do this.’
She put her hand against his chest and tried to push him away with all her might, but she hesitated at the thought of his wounds. In the end, she just stood there blankly.
Sometime later, he finally ended the kiss.
“Why didn’t you push me away? If you don’t feel anything for me, you would’ve pushed me away, no?” Martin Weiss’s voice rang in Kyla’s ears.
“When did you become so innocent?” Kyla looked at Martin Weiss, smiling derisively. “Does a kiss mean affection?
Even if we sleep with each other, it doesn’t mean we have feelings for each Martin Weiss’s face turned pale.
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