Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“You didn’t have to come. Valda needs to rest. Get out!” Camille Strickland wanted to kick Raymond Bowman out, but she was not strong enough to pull him.
“Valda, I had no idea those guys were really beating you. I didn’t know you were suffering!” he said, looking guilty.
Valda Theller said coldly, “You don’t need to apologize. You’re nobody to me. You’re not obliged to do anything for me.”
“But I-”
Camille Strickland suddenly interrupted Raymond Bowman. “No buts! Valda doesn’t need your concern. All she needs is her boyfriend. I’ll call for the hospital security guards if you don’t leave!”
Raymond Bowman said, “Boyfriend? Is that man really Valda’s boyfriend?”
As he spoke, he pushed Camille Strickland aside and walked to Valda Theller’s bedside. “Valda, do you know who your boyfriend is? How much do you know about him? You said you love him very much and get along with him, but do you know that he was deeply in love with a woman before this? He didn’t hesitate to save her with his life. There are even rumors that he was willing to never marry in his life just because of that woman. Even though that woman has been married for years and even has children now, he has never dated any woman!”
Raymond Bowman’s words struck Valda Theller’s heart like a hammer.
Was he talking about… Brian?
She always knew that Brian had someone he loved, and that person should be the woman called Grace she saw the last time.
They pretended to date to make her believe that he really had a girlfriend. It was why he pretended to hug her in the parking lot. It was just to make others see that they were in love.
However, she did not expect Brian to love that woman that much.
What would those cold but indifferent eyes look like when they were full of affection?
“That man is Brian. He’s also the president of the Hart Group and the crown prince of the entertainment industry!” Raymond Bowman bent over, put his hands on Valda Theller’s shoulders, looked her straight in the eye, and said, “Valda, he’s not sincere. That man doesn’t love you at all!”
Valda Theller felt as if a great storm had set off in her heart. Facing Raymond Bowman, she had no idea what to say all of a sudden.
‘Brian is… the crown prince of the entertainment industry?’
Even though she was an outsider, she had heard rumors about the crown prince. However, she did not know the crown prince’s name, so she never connected Brian with him.
Those rumors were now overlapping with Brian’s figure.
Just then, a voice rang suddenly. “When is it someone else’s turn to judge whether I’m sincere and love Valda?”
Raymond Bowman stiffened immediately as he turned his head to see a tall figure entering through the ward door.
It was… Brian!
He wore a suit, and his handsome face made him look like Prince Charming in fairytales. This man ruled the entertainment industry.
Even popular celebrities were only pawns to him.
If Raymond Bowman regarded Brian as a womanizer before, he now had more doubts.
Why did Brian approach Valda Theller? If he wanted to fool around, many women in the entertainment industry were willing to fawn over him.
Besides, according to the information he saw, Brian was not a man who enjoyed fooling around.
Camille Strickland’s eyes widened after Brian appeared.
‘Gosh, is this… the crown prince of the entertainment industry?
Many people did not even have the chance to see him, yet he had shown up in front of her. He was even so close!
Camille Strickland would have screamed if she were not in a hospital ward.
Valda Theller, who was sitting on the hospital bed, saw Brian walking toward her. His figure gradually enlarged in her eyes.
“I’m sorry I sent them late.” Brian looked at the bruises on her face, and gloom swept across his eyes as he remembered Estelle Rowe’s report. Valda Theller shook her head slightly. ‘So, he’s the one who saved 1. He sent Assistant Maggie to the set!’
Brian’s eyes glimmered, and he took Raymond Bowman’s hands off Valda Theller’s shoulders. “Mr. Bowman, Valda is my girlfriend. I want you to watch your behavior in the future.”
“What on earth do you want from Valda?” Raymond Bowman asked. He knew the man before him was not someone he could offend easily, but he asked anyway.
Brian glanced at him coldly. “I don’t need to tell you. Whatever goes on between Valda and me is none of your concern.”
“But you don’t love her!” Raymond Bowman panicked.
“Is it? What if I say I do love her?” Brian asked slowly.
Raymond Bowman looked at Brian with shock. “What did you say? You love Valda?”
Brian’s expression remained unchanged, and his voice rang in the ward. “I love Valda Theller. We’ll never break up unless she wants to.”
The ward was silent. Raymond Bowman could hardly believe what he heard. ‘What did Brian say? Did he give Valda the right to break up with him? A man will only say things like that when he’s madly in love with a woman.’
However, Brian looked calm when he said that. His deep phoenix eyes were infinitely dark. No one could figure out what was on his mind.
“Raymond Bowman, I know what kind of person my boyfriend is.
You don’t need to worry. My boyfriend and I are getting along just fine. I know better than anyone how serious he is to me, so please leave, okay?” Valda Theller’s voice broke the silence in the ward.
Raymond Bowman opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he said nothing in the end.
He walked dejectedly out of the ward and leaned against the corridor wall. ‘What am I doing? I desperately wanted to make it up to Valda by approaching her and protecting her, but I did nothing when she needed protection.
‘And now I’m desperately jumping up and down like a clown, saying Brian has another motive for getting together with Valda.’
‘But what motive could the crown prince Brian have for Valda?
Money? Body? People would probably laugh if I told them.
‘Brian even gave Valda the right to break up with him. It can only mean that… Brian has feelings for Valda.
‘And Valda…”
Raymond Bowman smiled bitterly at the thought of it. It must be easy for Valda to fall in love with a man like Brian.
‘What about me? Have I lost Valda?’
The woman who used to blush for hours at the slightest touch of his finger on her cheek would no longer blush for him.
In the ward, Camille Strickland was still staring at Brian, unable to pull out of her trance.
“Are you really… the crown prince?” Camille Strickland asked in a mutter. “The crown prince?” Brian smiled. “It’s just a nickname from others. You don’t need to call me that.”
“Mr. Hart, thank you for sending someone to save Valda.
Otherwise, Valda would’ve been in so much trouble.” Camille Strickland was still terrified when she recalled what happened at the time. “Queenie Mack is so mean.
Though she was sent to the police station, she’ll probably be released on Stephensonl soon.”
“She can’t get out on Stephensonl,” Brian said indifferently.
“No way. Queenie Mack has a backer and should be able to get out easily,” said Camille Strickland.
“I said she can’t get out on Stephensonl, so she can’t,” Brian said firmly.
Camille Strickland’s eyes lit up suddenly. ‘Yes, so what if Queenie Mack has a backer? Valda has a backer like Brian too!
‘Queenie Mack is in trouble this time.’
“Well… I won’t disturb you two. I’ll go home first. Please take care of Valda, Mr. Hart.” Camille Strickland left the ward in a good mood.
Only Valda Theller and Brian were left in the ward. “What do you want to happen to Queenie Mack?” Brian asked suddenly.
“Huh?” Valda Theller froze, unable to come to her senses all of a sudden. “I don’t understand.”
“Jail time? Or do you want to have her fall from grace? Should we let her go through what you went through today? What about letting her suffer the pain you suffered tenfold or a hundredfold? What do you think?” Brian said casually as if he were talking about something simple.