Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“I’m not mad at you,” Valda said. “Brian, as I told you yesterday, I want to come back and live alone.
That way, I’ll feel more comfortable.”
“Do you feel uncomfortable being with me? Weren’t you the one who wanted to be with me before?” He said, bending down and bringing his face close to hers.
His breath, smelling of alcohol, sprayed onto her face, and his phoenix-like eyes were filled with nothing but her.
“That was in the past, now…”
“Do you not want to be with me anymore? Is it because I’m not good enough? Or is it because you feel like you don’t deserve me?” Brian asked, his gaze falling on Valda’s right leg, which was hidden by her long dress. “Is it because you think you’re handicapped and that’s why you don’t want to be with me.
anymore?”
Valda looked down, feeling ashamed and embarrassed. She knew that Brian was right. She had been avoiding him because of her own insecurities about her disability.
“I’m sorry,” she said softly. “I know I’ve been distant lately. It’s not because of you. It’s because of me. I just feel like I’m not good enough for you.”
Brian took her hand and looked into her eyes. “Valda, you are more than enough for me. I love you for who you are, not for what you can or can’t do. Please don’t push me away because of your own doubts and fears.”
Valda felt a weight lifted off her shoulders as she realized that Brian truly loved her for who she was.
She smiled and leaned in for a kiss, grateful for his understanding and acceptance.
Suddenly, she felt a wave of embarrassment wash over her. His words directly exposed what she was thinking in her heart.
“So, no matter how many times I say ‘I love you’, you don’t believe me? You don’t believe that I truly love you?” He looked at her again, holding her face in his hands, and said in a hoarse voice, “Valda, I love you. What do I have to say or do for you to believe me?”
“Brian, you’re drunk. Is your driver downstairs? If not, I can have him come up and help you down.” Valda let go of his hand, turned away, and couldn’t face him.
Even though a year had passed, Grace still had no resistance towards him.
“Wait for me here, I’ll go down first…” Her voice suddenly stopped, and the rest of her words seemed to be stuck in her throat.
I saw him lower his body and kneel on one knee in front of her.
Valda widened her eyes and only saw Brian’s hand gradually lifting the right side of her long skirt.
He wants to… look at her right leg!
“No! She doesn’t want him to see her ugly right leg again!”
Valda almost instinctively wanted to step back, but she forgot that there was a sofa behind her. As she stepped back, she stumbled and ended up sitting on the sofa.
Brian finally lifted her long skirt, revealing her slightly deformed right calf that caught his eye.
She wanted to pull up her skirt, but he was pressing down on her hand, preventing her from doing so.
“Didn’t you show it to me before? Why… don’t you want me to see it now?” he asked.
“There’s…nothing worth seeing,” Valda said, lowering her head. “Just like you said, I’ve already seen it, so why bother seeing it again?”
“But… I want to look at it a little more.” He fixed his gaze on her right calf, and his slender fingers gently stroked the deformed area. “It’s because you wanted to protect me that you got hurt like this, right
Valda? You really, really love me, don’t you?”
“No!” She quickly denied, “I… I used to love you very much, but now I feel that this feeling is not as strong as it used to be. Also, I didn’t get hurt just to save you. At that time, I was trying to save
Jasmine, and it had nothing to do with you.”
“Are you sure it’s okay?” When he heard her say that her feelings for him were not as strong as they used to be, his heart twisted with pain. Even though he told himself that maybe it was her own insecurity, it still hurt too much. “Valda, when you saved Jasmine back then, was it because you didn’t want me to blame myself and suffer? Were you afraid that I would feel guilty towards Grace and be in unbearable pain?”
She fell silent! Her head hung even lower, afraid to look at his expression at the moment.
“Have you ever thought about what would happen if you weren’t here? Do you really think that I would rather you risk your life to save Jasmine?” Brian whispered.
“That is…the best choice. If something happens to Jasmine, many people will be heartbroken. But…if something happens to me, even though everyone will be sad and upset, it won’t be too serious. It won’t be to the point where they can’t go on living,”
Valda said in a hesitant tone.
So she chose to face death on her own terms!
Brian forced a bitter smile and said, “Do you really think that if something happened to you, no one would be heartbroken to the point of not being able to go on? Then what about me? What does my decision even matter?”
“What does it mean? I…I don’t understand,” she stammered.
“Yes, you don’t understand, you don’t know, when you were in trouble, I was almost going crazy. Do you know how I survived?”
he said.
She slowly lifted her head and couldn’t help but let her gaze fall on the man kneeling in front of her. Her heart seemed to suddenly beat faster.
She saw his mouth opening and closing as he spoke, “It’s just that because I haven’t found you yet, I’m still alive. I won’t let anyone speculate about your possible death in front of me, but in my heart, I tell myself that if one day, I really do find your body, then I’ll go down and be with you.”
Valda widened her eyes in astonishment and looked at Brian in disbelief.
“So, Valda, don’t think that if something happens to you, I can still live well and find another person I love to spend the rest of my life with. That’s impossible!”
His every word flowed continuously into her ears.
“At first, you were desperate for me to fall in love with you. Now that I have, you say your feelings for me aren’t as strong. So what are your feelings for me now?” he demanded.
“I…my feelings for you are just…just like ordinary feelings between friends, I guess…” she stuttered.
“Lie!” he saw through her lie at a glance, “Is it because of your leg that you refuse to face me? Do you think it’s ugly? But for me, anything that belongs to you is beautiful, and this injury is proof of your love for me!”
As his voice trailed off, he pressed his lips onto her right calf, kissing it with almost reverent devotion.
Valda’s body stiffened, feeling as if all the blood in her body was rushing towards her calves.
Despite having such unattractive legs, he kissed with such sincerity.
She stiffened her body and stared blankly as he planted small, delicate kisses on her calf and the scar.
After an unknown amount of time, he lifted his phoenix-like eyes and gazed steadily at her. In a hoarse voice, he said, “Valda, I love you. Really, please don’t doubt what I’m saying. Can you believe me, please? That’s all I ask.”
“I…” she hesitated, unsure of how to answer him.
He suddenly stood up and then picked her up horizontally, carrying her into the bedroom.
She was taken aback as she watched him place her on the bed and begin to unbutton his own clothes, realizing instantly what he intended to do.
“Brian, don’t do this, you’re drunk…”
“I said I love you, but you don’t believe me. In that case, I can only prove it with my body,” he murmured.
He did drink some alcohol today, but he is far from being drunk. He is fully aware of what he is doing.
Finally, he took off his upper clothes and leaned down towards her, “I love you, Valda,” he said, and kissed her left cheek.
She was taken aback, but then he said, “I love you, Valda!”
The lips landed on her right cheek again.
And so, he repeated “I love you” over and over again, while kissing her repeatedly. He kissed her from her cheeks to her eyebrows, her eyes, nose, neck, and collarbone…
Valda felt as if she was enveloped by his breath, even though he was the one who was clearly drunk.
At this moment, she had a feeling of being intoxicated herself.
The repeated “I love you” sounded like a spell, constantly echoing in her ears, leaving her bewildered yet greedy for more.
After all, those were the words she had longed to hear the most!
Even if it’s sympathy or pity, she still wants to hear more.
“And you, do you really only have ordinary friendly feelings towards me? Look at me now and tell me again,” he said.
Valda stared at the man who was so close to her. At that moment, his handsome face was not as cold and distant as usual, but instead exuded a kind of dazzling and broken beauty, making it impossible for her gaze to move away from his face.
“If that’s the case, can you still say it? Are you planning to deceive me or deceive yourself? Are you willing to just be ordinary friends with me?”
His voice was filled with temptation.
“…I just wanted to…” She almost used her last bit of willpower to say something that went against her heart.
But his lips landed on hers, silencing all the words she had yet to speak.
Suddenly, Valda felt her mind go blank. His kiss seemed to take away all her senses, and she felt herself sinking into it completely…
One night, Valda indulged herself and immersed in it.
She kept telling herself that it was just one night.
He was drunk, that’s why he said these things and did these things to her. And she, she took it as a stolen moment of happiness.
At least for this one night, he truly loved her!
The next day, when Valda woke up, she looked at Brian lying next to her with closed eyes and felt a wave of reluctance.
How could she not love a man like this?
But now, she can no longer love.
She gently lifted her hand and slowly reached out towards the face that was so close to her, in fact, he was the person she was most reluctant to part with in her heart.
Her fingers lightly brushed his cheek, feeling his warmth.
“Brian, thank you,” she whispered, thanking him for the night they had.
But just as she was about to pull her hand away, his other hand.
quickly grabbed her wrist, and his previously closed eyes slowly opened. “What do you want to thank me for?” he asked calmly.
Valda’s face immediately turned red. “You…you heard me?”
“Mm, I heard you thanking me earlier. So, tell me, what do you want to thank me for?” he asked with a smirk.
her face grew even redder. How should she say it? Should she really just thank him for last night?
“Just thank you for…always finding ways to locate me,” she finally managed to explain after a while.