Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Did something happen to Mason?” Jasper guessed.
“There was a bit of a misunderstanding between us, so I want to explain things to him as soon as possible,” Veronica explained.
“Okay, if Mason comes back, I’ll contact you, Sister Veronica,” Jasper replied.
Veronica left the Reed family, but suddenly didn’t know where to find Mason. Should she go to school?
Stanford University is so big, and she’s not even a student there, so it’s hard to find
As for her home…when she returned to her small apartment, it was dark and cold, and he wasn’t there.
So where could he be?
She kept thinking and suddenly remembered when they were walking around at the Stanford University festival, they talked about their childhood.
She mentioned how when she was in elementary school and he wasn’t old enough to attend yet, he would wait for her at the school gate every day after class and they would walk home together holding hands.
At that time, he was just a child staying with her family and was often beaten by his father and stepmother, so he always had injuries. It was a difficult time for them, but they relied on each other and it was also a warm memory.
She also said that if they had the chance, they would go back to the school area to take a look.
Could it be…that Mason went there?
But other than there, she couldn’t think of any other place he might go.
With this in mind, Veronica quickly ran out of her apartment, hailed a taxi, and gave the driver the address of her old elementary school.
Will he come? Where will he come?
When she couldn’t find him despite wanting to see him, she felt so anxious!
As the taxi stopped in front of the elementary school, Veronica paid and hurriedly got off.
At this moment, the sky had completely darkened, and the moon in the sky was like a veil, making it difficult to see clearly. In the dark night covered by thick clouds, only a few scattered stars twinkled.
The elementary school was still similar to what she remembered, except that some of the buildings seemed to have changed when she looked through the iron gate.
However, there was no one standing at the school gate, it was empty!
In other words, Mason didn’t come here?!
Veronica’s heart sank, and a sense of emptiness swept over her.
She stood dumbly at the entrance of the campus, looking at the iron gate in front of her. There were many memories of her and Mason here. Whenever she walked to the school gate after school, her eyes would unconsciously search for that familiar figure.
It was as if seeing that figure would make her feel at case,
And now, where was that figure?
When she and Mason got back together, she had made
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up her mind in her heart that there should be no more misunderstandings between them, and they should not separate because of misunderstandings like before.
But now, would it be the same as before?
Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her.
In such a quiet moment, the footsteps behind her became even more pronounced.
Veronica shuddered and stiffened up.
Someone was approaching?
Although it was night and the place was a bit secluded, it wasn’t too late yet, so there shouldn’t be…
any danger, right?
She suddenly turned around and saw a familiar figure, causing her to freeze.
It was Mason!
However, he was different from usual. At this moment, he exuded a coldness, as if he was wrapped in ice, giving off a feeling of keeping people at a distance.
It was just like… when he first came to the Barlow family and she first saw him, she felt the same way.
“Why are you here?” His cold voice rang out as he looked at her with indifferent eyes in the darkness.
“Your phone was off, and I couldn’t find you, so I came here to try my luck and see if you were here.”
Veronica’s voice trembled slightly as she spoke.
Although she had mentally prepared herself for his anger and perhaps even fury, when she actually saw him, the look in his eyes that kept people at a distance still made her heart feel like it was being stabbed.
“What do you want from me?” Mason’s voice sounded again.
“I… I don’t want there to be any misunderstandings between us, so I wanted to find you and explain what happened at the hospital today.” She steadied herself and spoke.
“What’s there to explain about the hospital?” He said nonchalantly.
“There’s plenty!” She said urgently, “I really don’t care about Daniel, I don’t have any feelings for him anymore. I just don’t want you to get into unnecessary trouble because of beating him up. The person
I’m worried about is you!”
“If you’re really worried about me, then you could have left with me when I did. Why did you stay in the hospital with Daniel?” he asked.
“Well…there was no one else around at the time, and I needed to find doctors and nurses to treat his injuries,” she quickly replied.
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“And after that? After the doctors and nurses came, you still stayed with him? You waited until his injuries were treated and talked to him for a while before leaving the hospital?” Mason continued.
Veronica’s heart skipped a beat.
How did Mason know that she only left the hospital after Daniel’s injuries were treated and she talked to him? Did he see everything?
“You…” she opened her mouth, but didn’t know how to answer.
“Are you wondering how I knew? Do you know how long I waited for you at the hospital entrance?” he said coldly.
He waited for her at the hospital entrance, hoping she would come out and tell him that he was the most important person to her.
But time passed by and she didn’t show up.
He told himself that she would come out when he counted to
100.
But even after counting to 10,000, she still didn’t come out.
So he closed his phone, drove his car aimlessly on the streets of Emerald City, not knowing where to go.
His emotions were once again in turmoil.
It was like the feeling he had when they first separated.
He thought he would never experience that feeling again, but he did.
He thought that by hypnotizing his memories, he could avoid feeling the pain of that emotion again.
But reality made him feel it again.
Is this punishment for him? Punishing him for not learning his lesson, even though he had been hurt by
Veronica before, he still rushed to her to get hurt again!
“Yes, I’m sorry…” She stammered, “I waited in the hospital until it was confirmed that Daniel’s injury was not serious before leaving. I was afraid that he would really have a serious problem and you would get into trouble. I didn’t mean to…”
But before she could finish her words, he suddenly interrupted her, “You don’t need to explain anything to me.”
“I’m telling you this because I don’t want you to misunderstand. Daniel and I really don’t have anything…”
“Even if you really have something with him, it has nothing to do with me.” He said coldly.
A sense of unease surged in Veronica’s heart, “What do you mean by the
“It mean we’re berang predi tone, and there won indifference
Her heart suddenly sank… Break up?!
Once, Daniel had talked about breaking up with her, and at that time, she thought she was in a lot of pain! But now, compared to the present, that pain was nothing.
It turned out that the two words “break up”, spoken from Mason’s mouth, made her feel unbearable pain.
“Why… why do we have to break up?” Her lips trembled, as if she was asking with all her strength.
“Because I’m tired.” He said, not wanting to have emotional ups and downs or suffer from pain and discomfort because of her, nor did he want to experience hypnosis for the second time because of her in the future.
It might be best to cut off his feelings for her before he gets worse.,
“We’re breaking up. You can say whatever reason if someone asks. We won’t see each other again, and I won’t contact you. either, so you don’t need to find me.” He said.
She stared at him blankly, all her reactions seemed to have become extremely slow.
What is he saying? Break up?! They haven’t been together for long, everything was fine before, wasn’t it?
They ate together, shopped together, watched TV together in her apartment, and even lay in bed together, cuddling each other. Everything was so beautiful.
Just because she asked him to stop hitting Daniel today and waited aside while the medical staff treated Daniel, he wanted to break up with her?
As Mason turned to leave, Veronica panicked and instinctively caught up with him, grabbing his sleeve.
“Don’t… don’t go, I….. I don’t want to break up!”
He paused and turned to look at her. “I don’t want to continue anymore.”
“Why? I… I’ve explained to you, I have no feelings for Daniel, I care about you. Everything I did in the hospital was for you, not for Daniel. I was worried that Daniel would accuse you! Do you want me to explain again? Do we have to break up just because of this?”
“I said you don’t need to explain anymore.” When she repeatedly mentioned the hospital incident, he felt an indescribable sense of unease. He couldn’t even explain what this unease was!