Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The word ‘Bryn’ made Brian feel a pang in his heart. When she uttered the word, he somehow found it irritating to his ear.
“Call me Brian from now on. Bryn is just a childhood nickname,”
said Brian.
“Sure,” Stella Lindsay replied obediently.
Speaking of which, it was Grace who told her about the name
Bryn. When Grace was a child, she came home with her dress in tatters and said that she had saved someone. No one in the family believed her and they all thought she was lying to cover the fact that she was being naughty. As such, they beat her for it.
However, Stella Lindsay was curious as a child and went to ask Grace about it. Hence, she knew how Grace had saved the little boy called Bryn.
Otherwise, when Brian found her, she would not have succeeded in pretending to be Grace.
Of course, what was more important was that Grace later developed a high fever that could not be treated at the hospital in town. She was transferred to the major hospital in Emerald City for treatment.
After curing her illness, Grace completely forgot the memories of that day.
No one cared at the time. She only lost a day’s memory, which was a trivial matter to the adults. Plus, Grace did not even know she had lost a day’s worth of memories.
Even Stella Lindsay did not know that Grace had forgotten that day until she overheard the adults mentioning it when she was a child.
Therefore, in the end, apart from the little boy, Stella Lindsay was the third person who knew what happened that day.
This was the chance God gave her to make it up for her! At least, this was what Stella Lindsay thought to herself.
As for Grace, it would be best if she did not remember it.
Lina Sweeney specifically asked Grace out. “Has your grandmother’s funeral been taken care of?”
“Yes.” Grace nodded her head.
“Did you see your father?” asked Lina Sweeney.
Grace shook her head. Even at her grandmother’s funeral, her father never showed up. Of course, no one could get in touch with her father at all. Ever since her father and stepmother moved away from Emerald City, it was like they had disappeared. No one knew where they went.
Of course, if she really wanted to know, she could just talk to Jason and she should be able to find out.
However, she did not want to know. Her father, stepmother, and Evelyn were no longer family to her.
Maybe Jason was her only family from now on.
Lina Sweeney was speechless about her best friend’s father. “Are you going to mourn now that your grandmother’s dead?”
If she were to mourn, she must not marry for a certain period.
“Yes, I’m going to,” said Grace. Although she was only a maternal granddaughter and according to some customs, she was considered an ‘outsider, she did not feel like an outsider and naturally wanted to mourn for her grandmother.
“How long are you going to mourn?” asked Lina Sweeney.
“A year, I guess,” replied Grace.
“A year?” Lina Sweeney gave a low cry. “Then your wedding with
Jason will also be postponed a year?”
Grace nodded. “I haven’t talked to Jason about this yet. I’ll talk to him tonight and see what he thinks.” However, she had a hunch.
that he would agree.
It seemed as if he had agreed to every request she made ever since they started dating.
Lina Sweeney looked at her friend’s haggard face and suggested. “Why don’t we go to the shopping mall? Hadwin Stephenson asked me to accompany him to a meeting. He said he’s ordered a set of clothes for me to pick up at the shop in the shopping mall near here.”
Lina Sweeney did not want to be noticed at all at such conferences, banquets, and so on. However, Hadwin Stephenson kept dragging her to them as if he was addicted.
The most infuriating of all was when she argued that she was busy at work and needed to work overtime or something, the fellow would only smile and say it did not matter. Then, she would get a call from her superior who said she need not work overtime.
Needless to say, she knew Hadwin Stephenson had talked to the boss of her company.
They got to the nearby mall, and Lina Sweeney approached the shop to pick up her clothes with Grace.
Of course, the clothes Hadwin Stephenson chose were not ordinary brands. It was a first-tier luxury brand where even the most basic clothes cost tens of thousands of dollars. Clothes that cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars were common in the shop.
Lina Sweeney told them Hadwin Stephenson’s name, and the sales a**istant immediately put on a smile on her face. She graciously took the clothes out for Lina Sweeney to try on. If the clothes did not fit, they could modify it.
“Wait for me here, Grace,” said Lina Sweeney.
Grace nodded. “Sure.”
She was browsing the shop when she heard a voice coming from the shop entrance behind her. “Aren’t you spending too much buying me clothes and bags here, Brian? It doesn’t matter if I use something worse.”
“Now that we’re here, just buy some good stuff. Take whatever you like,” the man’s voice rang in response.
“You’re so good to me, Brian.” Stella Lindsay smiled sweetly.
“You saved me once, so I owe it to you,” said Brian as he lightly looked away. However, when he saw the figure in the shop, hist body stiffened suddenly.
Even just the sight of her back made his eyes warm.
Then, through the gla** wall in front of the figure, Brian’s line of sight met a pair of almond-shaped eyes.
‘He’s looking at me!’ Grace looked at Brian’s eyes through the gla** wall and could sense that he was looking at her.
When she looked at Brian, she could not help thinking of the dream she had last night. She never saw the face of the little boy in her dream.
However, judging from the little girl and the little boy’s experience in the dream and the fact that the little boy was called ‘Bryn’, she felt as if the little boy in her dream was him!
Stella Lindsay followed Brian’s gaze and saw Grace too. Her expression could not help but change instantly.
Stella Lindsay then smiled again and said, “Grace. I didn’t expect to bump into you here.”
Grace turned around to look at Stella Lindsay. “It’s quite a coincidence.”
“Are you here to buy clothes? It just so happens that Brian said he was going to buy me some clothes and bags. Please help me choose them,” said Stella Lindsay.
As Stella Lindsay spoke, she lovingly linked arms with Grace in a sisterly manner.
A stranger might think the two of them were close.
“I’m just here with a friend. If you want to pick out some clothes, you might as well ask the salesgirl for help,” Grace said lightly.
Stella Lindsay embarra**edly looked for a salesgirl to help her choose some clothes.
Brian walked to Grace’s side and said, “Don’t be too sad about your grandmother. Everyone is born, gets sick, and dies. Someone in this world will always leave first.”
Grace looked up at him. ‘Is he… Comforting me?’ His lanky body was now clad in a dark graphite gray suit. His handsome face had a placid, indifferent expression.
The entertainment industry’s crown prince was known for his indifference and his behavior of changing one girlfriend after another.
No one knew who the next girlfriend would be.
‘Could it be Stella?’ Grace suddenly came up with the idea. After all, Brian’s previous girlfriends were, by definition, substitutes for Stella.
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