Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Since then, she hasn’t had much desire to be a chef.
Jasper rolled his eyes at his expression and said, “Don’t worry, I ordered takeout. It’ll be here soon!”
He breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Oh, it’s takeout.”
“I won’t let you go to the hospital again after you vomited like that earlier,” she said. That time, he and his older brother ate her cooking and ended up in the hospital.
For her, it was a kind of shadow.
“You just threw up like that, I won’t let you go to the hospital again,” she said. The last time he and his older brother ate her cooking, they ended up in the hospital. For her, it was a kind of shadow.
At that time, she watched his older brother and him lying weakly in the hospital bed with IV drips, feeling sad, upset, and self-blaming.
It was clearly her fault, but why were they the ones bearing the consequences?!
“It seems like you only cooked that one time, why haven’t you cooked again? Lost interest?” he suddenly asked.
“I don’t want to see you guys end up in the hospital again,” she said.
“Nobody is perfect the first time, but with practice, it should get better,” said William.
“Do you want to try the food I cooked?” Jasper asked.
He smiled slightly and replied, “If you really cooked something, I will eat it.” Even if it’s really bad, he would still eat it.
“Aren’t you afraid of going back to the hospital?” she joked.
“If I end up in the hospital again, then I’ll have to trouble you to take care of me,” he said.
The atmosphere became more relaxed. He finished his milk and after a moment, the delivery of the porridge arrived.
After William finished his porridge, he and Jasper went to the Reed family’s guest room.
He was quite familiar with this room. Whenever he stayed at the Reed family’s house, he usually stayed in this room. There were even some of his clothes that he had changed into still in the room.
“You go back to your room and sleep first. I’ll freshen up and sleep later,” William said.
“Okay,” Jasper replied and left the guest room.
William walked into the bathroom and looked at his slightly pale face in the mirror. His appearance seemed to be a combination of his father and mother’s features.
If possible, he wished he didn’t resemble his mother at all.
He lifted his hands and pressed them against his face, murmuring to himself, “I won’t forgive, I won’t…”
The person who had abandoned him, why should he forgive them?!
When he finished washing up and lay in bed, he closed his eyes but his mind kept dreaming about everything that had happened before.
He dreamed of following his mother around, often hearing her curse something. If he ever annoyed her, she would slap him or even punch and kick him.
Sometimes, his mother would suddenly become a different person and treat him kindly, like a good mother.
He couldn’t understand why his mother would be nice to him one moment and then hate him the next.
Over time, he gradually stopped bothering his mother and just quietly tried to make her ignore his existence.
He no longer expects his mother to love him, he only hopes that she will stop hitting him.
He no longer tells his mother what he wants or what he likes. He only does what she asks him to do.
But even so, in the end, his mother still used him. She claimed that he was Sean Stevens’ child, just to use Sean to deal with Auntie Grace and the Reed family!
In his mother’s eyes, he was just a tool!
“Do you know that you are a burden? A burden! Why did I give birth to such a burden like you?!” His mother’s voice kept ringing in his ears, making him feel like even breathing was difficult.
“Someone like you, nobody will want you if you leave me!”
“You have to listen to me, if I die, you won’t be able to survive!”
These threatening and angry words came at him like a tidal wave from all directions, trying to completely engulf him.
No…please don’t say that anymore. He will survive! He is not a burden, he’s not!
“Ah!” William suddenly opened his eyes and saw the bright light in the room.
Did he just have a nightmare? But he remembers turning off the lights before going to bed, so why are they on now?
“William, what’s wrong?” Jasper’s voice rings in his ear, and then that familiar face comes into view.
William stares at Jasper, then exhales deeply. “I…I’m fine.”
“What kind of nightmare did you have? You’re sweating a lot,” Jasper says, wiping the sweat from
William’s forehead.
“I…” He grabs her hand, feeling her warmth, which cases the suffocating feeling from his dream. “I just dreamed of scenes from my childhood, where my mother kept saying that I was just a burden.”
The shameful things that are difficult to mention to others, he can only truly speak out when facing her.
“She always felt that giving birth to me was not by choice, because at first she didn’t even realize she was pregnant. By the time she found out, it was too late to have an abortion at a regular hospital, where she would have had to provide detailed information. On the other hand, a black market hospital would have required a large sum of money for the procedure, which she couldn’t afford. Therefore, in the end, she had no choice but to give birth to me in a small clinic.”
William murmured, “To her, I am a burden, someone who shouldn’t exist, someone beyond her plans!”
Jasper didn’t think twice as he watched William, who had his head down and was speaking with a sad and bitter tone. He simply raised his hand and suddenly embraced him.
At this moment, he was sitting on the bed while she was standing, so when she hugged him, his head rested on her chest.
William was taken aback, her chest was warm and he could hear her heartbeat as his face was pressed against it.
“Why are you suddenly hugging me like this?” William murmured.
Jasper blushed a little. She had hugged him like this when they were younger, but back then it didn’t feel like anything special. Now that they were grown up, it seemed to be a different kind of feeling.
“I just wanted to hug you,” Jasper said with a red face. “You’re not a burden at all. Your mom doesn’t even know what kind of precious baby she gave birth to.”
“I just want to hug you,” blushed Jasper. “You’re not a burden at all. Your mommy doesn’t even know what kind of precious baby she gave birth to.”
“A precious baby?” William chuckled. It had been so long since anyone had described him that way. It seemed like only his grandparents at the Barlow family would call him that sometimes when he returned home.
But as he grew older, fewer and fewer people called him that.
“No one uses ‘precious baby’ to describe a man,” he said.
“But to me, you are my precious baby,” Jasper said confidently.
He paused and looked up at her, “You got it backwards, didn’t you?” It should be that she was his treasure.
“No, I didn’t.” She held his face in her hands and said, “Actually, adults always say that when you were at the Reed family, I was the one who kept you company. But in my eyes, it was you who accompanied me.”
At that time, she had just returned to the Reed family and was still getting familiar with everything. The eldest brother was quiet, Mason didn’t live in the Reed House, and although her father was very kind to her, he couldn’t be with her all the time.
Her parents had a lot of things to deal with every day, and she had to be a good girl and go to kindergarten, adapting to life in this new city and new home.
Even though there were some children of the servants in the Reed family who were not much older than her, those children always tried to please her when they were with her, and they would ask her for many things. She even saw with her own eyes that some children who were a few years older than her whispered behind her back–
“Who knows if she’s really Mr. Reed’s child?”
“I thought they were triplets? But she looks nothing like the young master!”
“My mom said maybe she was born from another man when the lady was away!”
Eventually, she even went to ask her mother if she was really her father’s child.
A few days later, these servants’ children and their parents were all fired and had to leave the Reed
House.
At that time, she actually had no friends at the Reed House.
But his appearance gave her a true friend.
“William, because of you, I have been able to be happy from childhood to adulthood. Even in times of loss and pain, I feel like it’s not so hard,” Jasper said, then placed her lips on his.
He was slightly startled, but then responded to her kiss.
If he really was her treasure, then he hoped to always be…
Jasper felt like she had a good dream where she went back to her childhood and played games with
William.
They played for a long time and when they got tired, they slept together just like they did when they were young.
“Jasper, wake up.” A familiar voice sounded in her ear.
“Umm… let me sleep a little longer. I’m so tired. Just half an hour more…” Jasper murmured, turned over, and didn’t even open her eyes.
“Jasper, wake up.” The voice sounded more helpless.
Hmm… that voice is William’s voice!
Jasper’s groggy mind finally started to react a little bit.
But why would William’s voice be in her ear at this time? Oh right, last night she couldn’t sleep for some reason, so she went to the guest room to check on how William was sleeping, and then…
Jasper suddenly opened her eyes and saw William’s face in front of her.
Even in the early morning, with slightly tousled hair, Grace’s face exudes a handsome and beautiful feeling.
However, at this moment, the other person’s expression looks a bit strange.
Jasper yawned and said, “What’s the matter? We just slept together for one night, and we’ve slept together before. Hmm…I want to sleep a little longer. After all, I took a day off from school, so there’s no rush to go to class.”
She was planning to close her eyes again as she spoke.
A voice suddenly spoke up, “If I were you, I wouldn’t say that.”
Jasper’s body suddenly stiffened, that voice…big brother?!