Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“Auntie Grace, you…” she started to speak, but then a wave of pain hit her head, waking her up from her drowsiness and making her eyes go from blurry to clear.
In her mind, many images flashed by.
Right, the explosion!
Mason came to save her!
The last image in her mind was Mason being trapped under rocks, and she was desperately trying to move them so he could escape.
What happened after that? She couldn’t remember anything!
“Mason…where is he? Is he okay?” Veronica struggled to speak.
The pain in her body seemed to become insignificant, and she just wanted to know how he was doing.
“He’s in the next room, just had surgery too, but he hasn’t woken up yet,” Grace said softly, noticing
Veronica’s worry. “Don’t worry, the surgery went smoothly, and he should wake up in a few hours.”
“How is his injury?” Veronica asked again.
“He broke a few bones, and a bone accidentally pierced his lung, but the surgery went well, so as long as he rests well after the surgery, there shouldn’t be any problems,” Grace said. “You know his physical condition has always been good, and the doctor said he should recover faster than the average person.”
Veronica stared at Grace. “Really?”
“If Mason really had something going on, do you think I, as his mother, could just sit here calmly?”
Grace asked in response.
Veronica finally felt relieved.
“Auntie Grace…I’m sorry…” Veronica apologized.
Grace picked up a cotton swab and moistened Veronica’s dry lips with water, allowing her to relieve her thirst.
“Don’t apologize. I should thank you. If it weren’t for you desperately moving the stones that were pressing on Mason, I might not have seen my son again,” Grace said.
At the time, the construction site had activated unmanned drones to follow Mason into the blasting site, and as a result, the scene of Veronica desperately trying to help Mason escape was also captured.
“If he hadn’t come to save me…he wouldn’t have been injured…” Veronica murmured. “It’s my fault that he got hurt…”
“Don’t blame yourself,” Grace said. “It’s the kidnappers’ fault, and going in to save you was Mason’s own decision.”
“Can I go see Mason?” Veronica asked.
She really wanted to see Mason, the man who saved her life!
Even if Auntie Grace said he was safe, she still wanted to see him with her own eyes to truly feel at ease.
As Veronica spoke, she tried to move her body to get up.
Grace was frightened and quickly held Veronica down. “Don’t get up. You just had surgery a few hours ago. You need to lie still!”
“If you really want to see Mason, I’ll arrange it,” Grace said.
Putting herself in Veronica’s shoes, she naturally understood the urgency of wanting to see her son at this moment.
When she saw the footage taken by the drone, she felt anxious, trembling, scared, relieved, and…
admiration!
Yes, admiration!
She admired her son for choosing to enter alone to save people in such a dangerous situation, and she also admired Veronica for choosing to stay and move the stones that were pressing on Mason, even though she could have escaped first.
These two children clearly loved each other so much!
Fortunately, they were already close to the entrance, and the security guards and police officers risked their lives to seize the last opportunity before the explosion to rush in and bring the two of them out together.
If the timing had been a little worse, everyone might have died inside.,
Thinking of this, Grace still felt lingering fear.
Two hours later, Veronica finally saw Mason.
More precisely, she saw Mason while lying in her own hospital bed, which had been moved to Mason’s room.
Fortunately, Mason’s room was large enough, so adding her bed didn’t make it feel crowded.
Her bed was placed next to Mason’s bed, so she could see him just by turning her head.
Mason was still unconscious after the surgery, with bandages on his head and gauze on his hands and feet outside the thin hospital blanket. One of his legs was also in a cast.
But since he wasn’t in the ICU, there shouldn’t be any major problems, Veronica thought to herself. As long as he didn’t have any major issues and could recover his health in the future, that would be good!
She asked for nothing but his safety.
Even though she had once complained about his sudden breakup request, it no longer mattered to her now.
To her, his being alive was the most important thing!
Moreover…the fact that he was willing to risk his life to save her was enough for her to cherish for the rest of her life!
Veronica quietly watched Mason, unaware of when the people in the ward had left.
However, she didn’t last long, as she had just undergone surgery herself. So, without realizing it, she fell asleep again.
The noisy sounds in the ward woke her up again.
Opening her eyes, she realized that doctors and nurses were examining Mason’s condition at his bedside.
Veronica became nervous and heard the medical staff next to her say, “Miss. Barlow, don’t worry,
Mason has woken up. Dr. Larson is now examining his basic condition after waking up.”
Veronica breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the nurse who was guarding her bedside.
The nurse smiled, “I am responsible for taking care of you in the ward. If Miss. Barlow needs anything, just call me.”
Veronica understood that this was arranged by the Reed family.
“Okay, thank you.” Veronica said, “When can I drink water?”
The feeling of thirst had become even stronger.
“You can drink a small amount of water now.” The nurse said, then brought a cup of warm water and a straw for Veronica to drink while lying down.
After drinking the water, Veronica felt a little better.
Soon, it seemed that Mason’s examination was also over, and the people around the bed gradually dispersed. Veronica finally saw Mason’s face.
It was just like what she had seen before. But at this moment, his eyes were open, and he…really woke up.
As if feeling her gaze, Mason turned his head slightly and looked at her.
In an instant, Veronica’s mind went blank, and it seemed that only his existence was left in her eyes.
In the following days, Veronica and Mason were in the same ward. Veronica also learned from the nurse that the first thing Mason did when he woke up was to look for her.
Even in the condition of being injured all over, he struggled to get up from the bed, but was pressed down and told that she was lying in the bed next to him. He then calmed down.
During the days in the ward, the two of them hardly communicated because they were both lying in bed and Veronica was burdened with heavy thoughts, while Mason was a silent person.
However, Veronica was fortunate that Mason did not kick her out of the ward, so she was able to continue staying in Mason’s ward.
The Reed family came to visit every day, and because the two were in the same ward, it saved the
Reed family from running around.
Veronica also learned from the Reed family how close they were to being doomed if they had been a little later or if there had been any mistakes in the process.
“What about Daniel? How is he?” Veronica asked.
When she asked the question, she clearly felt Mason looking at her.
“He has been arrested by the police. He made the explosive device himself, which caused the explosives buried at the scene to detonate. He will be punished for all his crimes. Even if he is not sentenced to death, he will be imprisoned for life,” Jasper said.
Of course, all of this was what she heard from her mother.
“I never expected that this would be his fate in the end,” Veronica sighed.
After all, she had once seen Daniel in his prime.
At that time, Daniel was also a sunny boy who gave people a warm feeling.
But now, Daniel is cold, extreme, and likes to push all the blame onto others, in order to believe that he has done nothing wrong.
Step by step, he went astray like this.
In the end, he put himself in an irretrievable situation.
“Veronica, you wouldn’t sympathize with him, would you?” Jasper asked, knowing that Daniel was
Veronica’s ex-boyfriend.
“No,” Veronica replied, “I won’t sympathize with him.”
After all, she almost lost her life because of Daniel. Since Daniel clearly wanted her dead, why should she sympathize with such a
Jasper breathed a sigh of relief.
Just then, a nurse walked in and took Mason for some tests.
So, in the hospital room, there were only Jasper, Veronica, and the nurse who was taking care of
Veronica.
Mason teased Veronica, “Veronica, I have to say, Mason really cares about you. He was willing to risk his life for you. Are you really going to break up?”
“It’s not that we’re going to break up, we’ve already broken up!” Veronica corrected him silently in her mind.