Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
When Veronica woke up the next day, she saw that Mason was no longer in the room and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Last night, after she closed her eyes, she didn’t actually fall asleep. She also heard what he said, but didn’t know how to respond, so she continued to pretend to be asleep.
Does Mason still have feelings for her…?
As soon as she thought of that possibility, she instinctively resisted it.
To her, he had always been a younger brother and a family member. Even though they were not related by blood, this concept had become deeply ingrained in her mind.
Therefore, she couldn’t even imagine what would happen if she changed her relationship with him!
Moreover, in her opinion, his feelings towards her were just a childish obsession because she was the person he had spent the most time with since childhood.
In the future, when he meets more people and grows up, his feelings will also change.
Just like a child who is extremely attached to their favorite toy and refuses to lend it to other children, but when they grow up, they will realize that it was just a toy.
Veronica freshened up, changed her clothes, and walked downstairs, only to find Mason sitting alone at the dining table.
“Where are the others?” she asked.
“They’ve already had breakfast,” he replied.
“Sorry, I overslept,” she said.
“The Reed family here, everyone has different breakfast times,” Mason said. “What does Veronica want to eat?”
“Just the same as you,” Veronica replied.
Mason then had the servant bring a breakfast that was the same as his.
Veronica sat down quietly and ate, while Mason sat next to her, silently watching her.
Even though she had her head down, she could still feel his gaze.
It made her heart race!
She couldn’t help but tighten her grip on the utensils in her hand, suddenly looked up and said to
Mason, “Mason, can you…”
“What?” he asked in return.
Their eyes met, and her heart seemed to race even faster, beating more intensely!
“It’s nothing!” She bit her lip and lowered her head to continue eating breakfast in front of her.
What’s wrong with her? She wanted to tell him not to stare at her like that, but when she met his gaze, she became flustered!
She never used to be like this!
After finishing breakfast, Mason suddenly said, “Oh,
Veronica…”
“Hmm?” She looked up and unexpectedly saw him leaning towards her, his handsome face getting closer and closer.
She instinctively leaned back, trying to create some distance between them, but leaned back too far and lost her balance, almost falling backwards!
“Ah!” she exclaimed in surprise.
In the next moment, a strong arm had already wrapped around her waist, stabilizing her body and preventing her from falling to the ground.
“Veronica, don’t move,” Mason’s voice sounded low in her ear.
“Okay,” she replied softly, his breath brushing against her cheek and making her face flush. “You, you can move your hand away now. You don’t have to keep holding me like this.”
After a moment, his hand finally moved away from her waist.
She breathed a sigh of relief, but then he took out a necklace from his pocket. “I cleaned this necklace. Do you still want it,
Veronica?”
After a moment, his hand finally moved away from her waist.
She breathed a sigh of relief, but then he took out a necklace from his pocket. “I cleaned this necklace. Does Veronica still want it?”
“This is…” Veronica looked at the necklace in Mason’s hand, and it was none other than the one that had caused her to injure the kidnapper and the same one he had given her as a gift.
“I thought I had lost it! I didn’t expect it to end up back in your hands!” Veronica’s face lit up with joy. “If it weren’t for this necklace, I might not have been lucky enough to escape from that warehouse. I might have…”
Her voice faltered as she spoke, and the feeling of humiliation at being overpowered once again spread through her body, causing her to tremble involuntarily.
At that moment, Mason suddenly hugged Veronica and said, “Don’t be afraid, Veronica. You don’t have to be afraid of anything anymore. No one can hurt you again!”
His voice, soothing to her ears, gradually calmed her trembling body and gave her a sense of peace.
This time, she didn’t push away his embrace, but leaned on his shoulder. “Mason, having you here…it’s really nice.”
When she was lonely and anxious as a child, his appearance made her life different.
Between her and him, it wasn’t just her accompanying him, but they accompanied each other.
It was him who helped her walk out of the shadows of her mother’s death, her father’s remarriage, and her stepmother’s mistreatment. He made her feel that she wasn’t alone in a family, because he was by her side.
No matter what happens, he is by her side.
“Mason, can you help me put on the necklace? This necklace is like a lucky charm to me, and I’m so happy to have it back,”
Veronica said.
“Sure.” Mason responded and released the embrace, carefully putting the necklace on Veronica’s delicate neck.
Veronica lifted her hand and gently stroked the pendant of the necklace. “Thanks to it, I was protected.
But that day was really lucky for us. How did you get the clue to track it down?” she asked, puzzled.
His eyelashes trembled slightly as he looked down at the pendant hanging from her neck. “It’s a long story. I’ll tell you another time.”
“Okay.” She didn’t press for more information, thankfully.
Mason looked at the person in front of him. If she had pressed for more information, what would he have said? How could he tell her that he had secretly installed a tracking device in the necklace he had given her?
Would she be angry if he told her?
He didn’t want her to be angry again. It had taken so much effort to become intimate with her again, and he didn’t want any more cracks to form between them.
At night, in the Reed family’s study, Jason looked at his second son. He was surprised that his son wanted to talk to him alone. It gave him a sense of being a father.
“Are you here to talk to me about the kidnapping case?” Jason asked.
“Yes,” Mason replied. He then asked directly, “When can Lionel be released on bail?”
“At the moment, he is not suitable for bail,” Jason said.
“He is not the mastermind,” Mason said.
Jason smiled, “He may not have the ability to be the mastermind yet, at most he’s just being used by someone. You know it, and I know it too. But this needs to be judged by the court, not by you and me.”
“You can get him released on bail, I know you can,” Mason said.
Jason raised an eyebrow, “Are you pleading for him? Do you have some brotherly feelings for that kid from the Barlow family after years of being together?”
“No,” Mason decisively denied, “My brothers are Mick, and my sisters are Jasper and Jasmine.”
So, this son wants to bail out Lionel because of Veronica’s relationship? Jason understood, “What about Veronica? Isn’t she your sister?”
“She used to be, but not anymore,” Mason said, his dark eyes flashing with a certain determination.
Jason looked at his son and said, “Alright, I will have someone bail Lionel out first. But you were able to find Veronica early this time because there was a tracking device in the necklace you gave her, right?
Does she know about this?”
Mason’s thin lips tightened and his face slightly changed, but he didn’t say anything.
TH
Looking at his son’s expression, Jason knew the answer. “So when do you plan on telling her? Once the trial begins, your appearance will require a reasonable explanation to the judge. This matter will eventually come to light.”
Mason remained silent, understanding his father’s words without a need to respond.
“When do you plan on telling her? You can’t possibly wait until the day of the trial,” Jason asked.
“I’ll tell her at the right time,” Mason replied.
“Then do it sooner rather than later. From my experience, the longer you keep something hidden, the bigger the reaction when the other person finds out. It’s better to be upfront from the beginning than to have them find out from someone else,” Jason advised.
Mason’s eyes flickered slightly, “Experience? Does that mean you’ve kept something from Mom before?”
Jason was frank, “Yes, when I was with your mother, I deliberately kept some things from her. I thought
I could keep it hidden forever, that she would never find out. But when she learned the truth from someone else, I realized that all my assumptions were just my own self-
righteousness. If I had told her myself, maybe it would have hurt her less.”
Thinking back to what happened back then, Jason still felt scared, but he also felt fortunate that Grace’s love for him was deep enough when she found out the truth.
“I understand,” Mason said. He wouldn’t hurt Veronica, so even if he didn’t want to tell her about this, he would still do it!
For the next few days, Veronica recuperated at the Reed family’s home, and Mason was almost always by her side.
Even at night, when Veronica went to sleep, Mason stayed with her until she fell asleep before leaving.
Even Jasper couldn’t help but envy Veronica and said,
“Veronica, Mason is so good to you. If Mason ever treats me like this, I would be so happy!”
Veronica felt a bit embarrassed, as Jasper was Mason’s biological sister. “Um…should I talk to Mason and ask him to treat you better?” she suggested.
Jasper quickly waved his hand. “No, if that happens, Mason’s kindness to me would only be because of your relationship with him, not because of me,” he explained. “But honestly,