Chapter 293 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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“But they’re not the one he’s looking for. Is it fun to keep looking for substitutes?” she asked.

“Maybe he’s too obsessed with it, or maybe he’s on the verge of despair. After all, maybe he doesn’t even think he’ll ever find that little girl again.”

As Jason spoke, the conversation took another turn. “If your were that little girl and you knew there was such a person looking for you, what would you do?”

Grace was stunned for a moment. She had not thought about this a**umption.

“Will you be touched and go back to him?” asked Jason in a deeper voice than usual. It was as if his voice was inducing her. with some sort of hypnosis to say what she really thought.

“Probably not. Just like what you’ve said, maybe he’s too obsessed. He’s not really in love with the little girl. Besides, he knew her when he was young. How deep can a child’s feelings be?” said Grace.

“Really? What if he’s bent on having you?” asked Jason.

Grace could not help laughing. “If he’s bent on having me, must I give myself to him? Besides, I already have you. Even if I’m willing, you won’t let me.”

“Yes, you already have me…” muttered Jason. “Of course, I won’t. I won’t give you to anyone.”

His hand suddenly grabbed the back of her head. He kissed her on the lips.

The hot, lingering kiss was overbearing and monopolistic, almost leaving Grace breathless.

She did not have a clue how much time had pa**ed, but when the kiss was over, Grace’s cheeks were flushed. Her chest was heaving, and her lips were opened slightly as if she had not come back to her senses yet.

Jason gently caressed her lip, his eyes flashing brightly. “Brian thinks he can get comfort from a substitute, but he’s just deceiving himself. If it were me, I wouldn’t be looking for a substitute. There’s no point if the one beside me is not the one I want.”

When Grace delivered the food in the afternoon, she again. received an order from her former law firm. The order was placed by her former colleague, Andrea Schwartz.

Speaking of which, Andrea Schwartz had deliberately ordered several times ever since learning she was delivering food here. How could Grace not know what Andrea Schwartz was thinking?

“What’s the matter? Is there something wrong with the order?”

asked Kyla Corbyn from the cashier counter.

“It’s nothing.” Grace chuckled. Then, she picked up the order, walked over to her electric bike, and rode off toward the law firm.

When Grace went into the firm carrying Andrea Schwartz’s food, Andrea Schwartz came forward and said with a smile, “Hey, Grace. Thank you so much for delivering my order again.”

“Don’t mention it. It’s my job,” Grace said lightly and held her order out to her.

Instead of taking it, Andrea Schwartz suddenly took her to the general room and said to all her colleagues there, “Here, everyone. This is the person involved in the case I just told your about. She’s also our former colleague, Grace.”

Suddenly, all eyes were on Grace.

A bad feeling suddenly rose in Grace’s heart.

Andrea Schwartz said with a sincere expression, “I’m in charge of teaching some of the rookies here these days, and as you know, the best thing to do is mention some of the controversial cases in the past and discuss it. I happened to tell them about your case today, but instead of looking at the court records and case description, it’ll be better to just listen. to you.”

As Andrea Schwartz spoke, she lovingly took Grace’s hand and said, “Grace, you’re not going to say no, are you? You kept saying that you were wronged at the trial. Why don’t you tell us about it? Maybe all of us can brainstorm and help you find some clues that can help you reverse your case?”

Grace found that her hands and feet were cold. Each sentence and every word Andrea Schwartz said seemed to be drawing a bloody gash in her old wound!

Brainstorm? Clues? Reverse her case?

That was ridiculous!

When the accident happened and when she needed help, Andrea Schwartz never once offered to help her! She even avoided her, afraid that she would trouble her.

However, saying such words now was like cutting her bloody wounds open for irrelevant people to see.

Grace looked at Andrea Schwartz coldly. She only thought Andrea Schwartz was a little bit despicable, wanting to step on her no matter what. However, now she realized Andrea Schwartz was more despicable than she thought.

Grace’s cold eyes made Andrea Schwartz feel a sudden tingling in her heart, but she repressed the anxiety in her heart and said with a smile, “What’s the matter with you, Grace? Why are you looking at me like this? I just want to help you. After all, we were colleagues. If you were wronged, I also hope that the law can clear your name and give you justice.”

“You’re really despicable, Andrea Schwartz!” Grace said relentlessly, pulling her hand straight out of hers. “If your really want to help me, why didn’t you help me three years. ago? Why didn’t you take my case when I couldn’t even find a lawyer?”

“I… I was…”

“Afraid of being implicated by my case? So why aren’t your afraid of getting implicated now? Aren’t you even afraid that these rookies will get implicated by discussing my case?”

“I’m just trying to help you, Grace. Now you’re going too far!”

Andrea Schwartz said, exasperated.

“Help me? Those two words coming out of your mouth make me sick!” said Grace.

The people around them were professional lawyers, not idiots. How could they not sense something when they heard this? Immediately, the way they looked at Andrea Schwartz changed. It was certain that Andrea Schwartz’s reputation was ruined.

Andrea Schwartz had wanted to embarra** Grace today so that she could vent her mortified feelings after meeting Grace during her medical examination at the hospital.

Who would have thought that the person being embarra**ed now was herself?

At once, without thinking, she picked up a cup of tea in front of her and threw it at Grace.

Grace managed to avoid getting splashed on her face as she already had her defenses up and stepped back in time, but the upper half of her clothes was not spared.

As the weather was hot, Grace wore nothing more than a white shirt. It was now wet from the tea and her

undergarment beneath was visible.

Andrea Schwartz’s colleagues did not expect her to do that all of a sudden. Some of them let out an immediate exclamation.

While Grace made a conscious effort to cover her chest, a thin suit jacket covered her body in the next moment.

“Put it on!” A voice rang in her ear.

Grace was stunned. This voice was… She turned her head, and the indifferent, delicate face caught her eye.

It was Brian!

His brows were slightly furrowed, and there was a hint of anger in his deep phoenix eyes. It surprised her a little. After all, more often than not, he looked as if he were indifferent to everything around him.

Grace did not expect Brian to be here, but the suit jacket certainly hid her embarra**ment.

Brian was accompanied by the law firm’s boss and two lawyers from the firm, one of whom led Grace when she joined the firm.

Right now, he looked at Grace with a mixed look in his eyes.

“What’s this?” The boss snapped. It was obviously not a nice thing to happen in front of one of the firm’s biggest clients.

Andrea Schwartz, who looked angry earlier, started to panic. “No… Nothing. I just missed and accidentally spilled tea on Grace.”

Brian snorted coldly. “Were you careless, or was it on purpose?”

There was even a sharp glimmer in his phoenix eyes.

Andrea Schwartz’s face went red. “It’s… It’s…” She wanted to insist that she was careless, but the words seemed stuck in her throat as she looked into his cold phoenix eyes.

The boss looked around, then asked the others, “Tell me, what’s going on?”

A colleague, who was also in the general room and had joined the firm around the same time as Grace, gave a rough account of what happened.

At the mention of Andrea Schwartz asking Grace to give details of her case to the rookies, Brian’s eyes flickered slightly. His eyes turned to Grace’s slightly pale cheeks.

She stood a little awkwardly while draped in his suit. Her pale face and even her lips looked a little bloodless, making her almond-shaped eyes appear startlingly black in comparison.

Her hands, which had fallen to her sides, were clenched into fists. It was some kind of oppressive tolerance.

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