Chapter 235 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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Then, while waiting for the dishes to be served, Lina Sweeney held her phone and showed Grace the various posters of The King’s Lover, the TV series she recommended earlier.

“What do you think? Isn’t Howell Webb’s costume manly, seductive, and S**y?” Lina Sweeney said with some excitement

Hadwin Stephenson’s face darkened right away. This woman who watched TV dramas and chased after idols all day long obviously forgot that he was her boyfriend now!

Worst of all, she presented herself to him as if she were always looking at him with fascination. In the next moment, however, she was again fascinated by all kinds of idols and celebrities.

Before Grace could see the posters, the phone was taken away by Jason.

Jason peered down at the posters on her phone, swiping to see more of them. After a while, he looked up and stared at

Grace. “Is this your ideal type?”

Grace went into a frenzy of embarra**ment. “Well… I… I had high hopes for this actor. His acting is good, and some of the TV series he starred in were also pretty good.”

“Is that so? Fine, how about I ask my secretary to ask Howell Webb out some other day, so you can have a good look and ask for an autograph or something?” asked Jason.

“Huh?” Grace was stunned.

Lina Sweeney’s eyes widened with admiration on her face!

Oh my God! Was Jason going to help Grace meet her idol? Lina Sweeney was impressed. It was just too bada**! With Jason’s abilities, no matter which celebrity Grace was a fan of, Jason could ask them out.

Hadwin Stephenson looked at Lina Sweeney and his face seemed a lot more gloomy. Did this woman… need to show her envy so visibly on her face?

He was just a celebrity. Was he that good? It was just a meeting to get his signature. Could she really be that envious?

Just then, the waiter came in with the dishes, breaking the eerie atmosphere in the private room.

“All right, let’s eat,” said Jason.

The four of them started eating their lunch. Jason offered to help Grace peel the prawns when they were eating this particular dish. Grace was a little embarra**ed. After all, they were now in front of her best friend and Hadwin Stephenson.

Lina Sweeney, in particular, even winked at her, making Grace a little speechless.

Jason looked so graceful while peeling the prawns for her that he did not seem to care about other people’s opinions.

After the meal was over, Jason reminded Grace, “Don’t forget to take your medicine 20 minutes after lunch.”

“Okay,” replied Grace.

“Are you sick?” Lina Sweeney was shocked and asked with immediate concern.

“No, it’s just some health-restoring pills. It’s medicine for the pain in my joints,” answered Grace.

Lina Sweeney was stunned. She knew about her best friend’s imprisonment for three years. After she was released from prison, she suffered from rheumatism. Her joints would hurt when the weather was cold and gloomy.

She had advised Grace to go to the hospital to check it out and treat it, but Grace always gave a lot of excuses.

She knew Grace thought it was too expensive to treat it and that it would be over soon if she just hung in there. She tried to pay for the medical expenses once but was refused by Grace.

Now that Grace was starting to take care of her body and health, it must be Jason’s doing.

Lina Sweeney’s fondness for Jason increased suddenly.

Although Grace’s ordeal in prison was somewhat related to Jason, he did not know Grace back then.

She could see that Jason was really nice to her best friend.

It would not be the worst outcome if Jason could be her best friend’s happy ending.

In that case, Grace could finally enjoy life after all her sufferings.

When it was time to take the medicine, Jason gave Grace a cup of warm water. Then, he took out the medicine, placed it on her palm, and made her take it.

Lina Sweeney looked at his delicate and gentle movements. She could feel how Jason doted on her best friend.

How much a man doted on a woman was not judged from how much money he gave her or how well he could talk, but how much he would do for her.

After Grace finished taking her medicine, Lina Sweeney dragged Grace to the washroom and curiously asked, “Are you and Jason really together now?”

“Yes.” Grace nodded unabashedly, confessing her feelings in front of her best friend. “Lina, I thought I’d never fall in love with anyone anymore, but now I want to try to date him and see… if we can make it to the end?”

Her feelings were careful. She took every step with more caution because she had once been hurt in a relationship.

“Why wouldn’t you?” Lina Sweeney patted Grace on the shoulder and said, “Before this, I would have thought it was impossible between you and Jason, but today, I can see that he’s serious about you. I mean, people say all kinds of things. about Jason, but when it comes to women, he has kept his hands to himself. It seems that he only had one fiancée,

Jennifer Atkinson…”

Lina Sweeney stopped short and glanced awkwardly at

Grace. After all, Jennifer Atkinson was not only Jason’s former fiancée but also the victim of the car accident.

As if she could see what her best friend was worried about, Grace said, “Never mind, I’ll find out the truth and give Jennifer Atkinson justice while clearing my name!

“Never mind me. What about you? How are you with Hadwin Stephenson?” asked Grace.

“What else? That’s all.” Lina Sweeney shrugged and said, “We look just like a couple in a normal relationship.””

It was precisely because it looked too ‘normal’ sometimes that she often got into a trance, thinking that she was really dating Hadwin Stephenson. She even got caught up in this ‘dating’ feeling. She needed to remind herself constantly that everything was fake. Hadwin Stephenson was only going to take revenge after she fell in love with him.

“I still don’t think Hadwin Stephenson is going to take revenge on you as you think,” said Grace. If he wanted to take revenge on Lina, people like Hadwin Stephenson had a lot of ways to torment people. There was no need for him to choose such a circuitous and time-consuming method.

“I hope it’s not what I think it is too.” Lina Sweeney curled her lips disapprovingly.

Grace knew that Lina still thought Hadwin Stephenson was dating her for revenge, but as she did not know much about Hadwin Stephenson, she did not go on.

Some things could only be understood by experiencing it.

She just did not want Lina to get hurt in any way.

They left the washroom and headed for the private room.

When they opened the door to the private room, they saw Hadwin Stephenson with one hand on the table and the other on the back of the chair Jason was sitting on. He was half bent over and talking to Jason.

Their gazes were almost at eye level and their faces were very close together.

Grace and Lina Sweeney were stunned. Lina Sweeney even gasped in exaggeration.

“What… are you doing?” Lina Sweeney only felt that the scene before her was beautiful like a picture. In her eyes, the spaces around and between the two men were filled with roses, just like in the comics.

Hadwin Stephenson’s face darkened. Just from Lina Sweeney’s expression, he could guess what kind of mess was going on in her mind.

“Nothing.” Hadwin Stephenson straightened up and slouched back into his seat.

“Nothing indeed.” Jason smiled too. “Mr. Stephenson and I were just chatting.”

Chatting… Did they need to get so close to each other to chat? The two women doubted it.

“All right, now that we’ve finished our lunch, let’s head back to Emerald City. If we go back now, we’ll reach Emerald City by four or five o’clock,” said Jason as he stood up.

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