Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Oh, okay,” replied Valda Theller as she followed Brian to Grace and Lina.
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“This is Valda Theller, my girlfriend. And this is Grace, my…
friend, while this is Lina, a friend of Grace,” Brian said as he introduced.
“Hello, I’m Valda Theller,” Valda Theller said to the two with a smile.
B Gifts “Hello,” Grace and Lina said hurriedly, but their eyes were full of surprise. Especially Grace. ‘Did Brian just say… she’s his girlfriend?
‘Brian has a girlfriend?’
“Are you two seeing each other?” Grace asked.
“Yes, but we haven’t been seeing each other for long,” said Valda Theller.
“I didn’t expect to fall for Valda, but love is unexpected sometimes,” said Brian. Valda Theller could feel the fingers holding her clenching as if he was telling her to cooperate with him.
He wanted her to act in front of these two women and convince them she was his girlfriend.
Was the one who hurt him romantically one of these women?
Grace looked at the two seriously. “Are you really seeing each other?”
“Could it be fake?” Brian grabbed Valda Theller’s hand and pressed it on his heart. “Grace, I think Valda might be the only one who can save me now.”
Grace froze, while Valda Theller asked in a panic, “What’s wrong? Are you sick? Is it serious?”
Her worried expression was not fake.
She was the only one among the four people present who did not understand the meaning of the word ‘save’ when it came out of Brian’s mouth.
Brian said, “I’m not sick. I’m in good health. I’m just saying you’ll save me if I’m in danger.”
Valda Theller was relieved. “So, that’s what you mean. Of course, I’ll save you if you’re in danger.
You’re my boyfriend, after all.”
‘Even if you’re only a pretend boyfriend, I’ll still save you. She added silently in her head.
“Then I wish you a happy relationship,” said Grace as her eyes fell on Valda Theller’s face. “Valda, Brian’s a good person. I hope you can cherish him.”
“I will. I love Brian very much. I’ll cherish him.” Valda Theller dutifully ‘acted’ as his girlfriend.
“Goodbye, then. Let’s get together again when we have the chance,” said Grace.
“Okay.” Valda Theller smiled. Once Grace and Lina left, Valda Theller looked at her right hand that Brian was still holding tightly. His hand still held it tight as if their hands were locked together.
“Well… are you going to let go?” she asked in a mutter. After all, his friend was no longer there.
His fingers loosened stiffly, and only then did she notice the sweat on his palm.
“Are you nervous?” Valda Theller asked abruptly.
“Nervous?” Brian muttered. Maybe he was nervous. He did not expect to let Valda Theller meet Grace so soon.
He was afraid that Grace would sense something wrong and would not believe that he was dating Valda Theller. He was scared that everything he had planned would not go his way.
Fortunately, Valda Theller was smart enough to realize it.
Their interlocked hands let go at last. Valda Theller said with feigned ease, “Look, how about I wear this dress to the booting ceremony?”
an Ex-Convict!
He pressed his thin lips slightly and looked at her in the long mint-green dress. The color made her look fairer. Her apple-like face shape, round eyes, and faint smile made her look amicable.
The tension that filled his body seemed to gradually disappear when he saw her.
“Not bad,” he said.
“I’ll take this dress, then,” said Valda Theller as she walked back to the fitting room and changed out of the dress.
When she walked out of the fitting room to pay for it, the shop assistant said, “Your boyfriend has already paid for it.”
“Huh?” Valda Theller looked at Brian in surprise. “That’s inappropriate. I’ll transfer the money to you.”
“There’s no need for that. Now that we’re dating, it’s only natural that I buy you a dress,” said Brian.
However, the problem was they were only pretending to be dating!
Brian turned and walked out of the boutique. Valda Theller hurried after him with her shopping bag. “I don’t think this is right. We agreed that I’ll be your fake girlfriend while you be my model, so there’s no reason for you to help me pay my bill.” After a pause, Valda Theller said, “If you were really my boyfriend, I’d have no opinion about you buying me a dress because it’s common for couples to give each other gifts. But you gave me a dress in our situation. What if you also give me something else that caught my eye tomorrow? It might not matter to you as these things don’t cost much. But I might get under the illusion that you have feelings for me and we’re really dating if I keep getting presents from you.”
Brian understood that the woman in front of him was hoping to draw a line with him as soon as he heard that. Any other woman would have tried to get more out of him if she were pretending to date him. She was an exception.
However, he might not have been so impulsive as to ask her to pretend to be his girlfriend if she were like any other woman.
Brian said, “Okay, got it. I won’t do it again. Consider this my token of gratitude for helping me out. Just this once.”
“A-Alright then.” Valda Theller could not take it too seriously since he had said so.
The two went to the parking lot, and Valda Theller instantly saw Brian’s car.
“Hey, your car is over there…” She had barely finished her sentence when a hand caught hers. The next moment, she fell into his arms.
“Bri Brian?” Valda Theller froze, instinctively wanting to push him away. However, his arms tightened.
“Don’t move,” he said in her ear.
Confused as she was, she obeyed his words and did not push him away again.
“Hold me.” His voice rang in her ears again.
“Huh?” She was stunned. “Hold… old you?”
“Yes, hold me. Hold me as lovers do,” he said.
Valda Theller hesitated slightly before slowly stretching out her hands to wrap around Brian’s waist.
‘What a thin… waist!’
She was immediately jealous of his waist once she held him.
Any woman would be jealous of it. She could feel that he did not have much fat on his waist even through his clothes.
‘Wide shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs… Her mind immediately began to wonder what a comic version of him would look like.
‘He’d be… attractive!’
The more she thought about it, the more excited she was. The embrace that made her flustered at first became natural.
Brian’s voice rang again. “Done.”
“What’s done?” she asked in a daze, still lost in her imagination.
“We’re done now. You don’t have to hold me anymore,” his elegant voice said.
Valda Theller immediately came to her senses. ‘Gosh… I got carried away!’
Her face reddened instantly, and she let go. “Sorry.”
“I should apologize for hugging you just now,” he said.