Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The trembling was so great that he could not stop it even if he tried. A suffocating fear enveloped him instantly, making it difficult. for him to breathe!
‘What is she… Dreaming about? Why did she cry out the word
‘Bryn’?’
When Grace suddenly opened her eyes, she realized that she had been dreaming again. She dreamed about the little boy and the little girl.
She woke up after dreaming about the little boy falling!
As soon as she looked up, her almond-shaped eyes met a pair of familiar peach blossom eyes. However, at the moment, Jason’s eyes were like a deep, dark, bottomless sea.
“Had a dream?” he asked with his thin lips parted, his voice sounding so far away.
“Yes.” Grace nodded and looked at the clock on the wall. It was past two o’clock in the morning. “Did I wake you up?”
“No, I just happen to have some trouble sleeping. What were your dreaming about? You look so pale,” he said.
Grace opened her mouth, but for a moment, she did not know what to say. Could she say she dreamt about a little girl saving a little boy and that she thought the little boy could be Brian?
He was already sensitive about Brian mistaking her for someone else, and now she could not even figure out why she had such a dream. Was it really because her cousin had told her how she saved Brian when they were little? Therefore… Was that why she had such a dream?
However, why did the little girl in the dream seem to be herself?
“Nothing.” Grace shook her head gently and said, “It was just an unimportant dream.”
‘Unimportant?’ Jason’s eyelashes quivered a little. “You have a lot of sweat on your forehead,” he said, raising his hand to her forehead.
Grace then noticed that her forehead felt wet. Her palms and back were all covered with sweat too.
However, the next moment, she noticed that his hand had stopped at her forehead. He did not go any further.
Grace was stunned. “What’s the matter?” Jason turned pale. He pulled back his fingers with difficulty, trying to withdraw his hand.
She seized his hand immediately and felt it tremble. “Why are your hands shaking?” she asked, seeing at once that it was not only his hands that were shaking but his whole body.
“What’s the matter, Jay? Why are you shaking so much?” asked Grace hurriedly.
Jason was a little out of breath. “I’m fine. I should be all right in a minute.”
“I’ll call the driver and take you to the hospital!” Grace said worriedly. She picked up her phone and planned to call the driver who lived in Reed Residence.
However, before she made the call, he had already hugged her from behind.
His hands were wrapped tightly around her, and his face was buried deep in her neck.
His hot breath sprayed down her neck. Each breath was so heavy that she could feel the weight on her shoulders.
“Jason, why don’t you let go first? I’ll take you to the hospital with the driver so that…”
“I’m really fine. There’s no need to go to the hospital. Just let me… Hold you like this,” he muttered.
Grace looked puzzled but did what he said and stayed still while he hugged her.
His arms around her were getting tighter and tighter, trembling in a way that made her feel the pain of being held to her bones.
“Sssss!” she gasped.
He stiffened, and his hoarse, apologetic voice rang in her ear, “I’m sorry I hurt you. Just bear with me a little bit longer, all right? Let me hold you a little longer.”
It was as if holding her and making sure she was by his side was the only way to ease him out of his panic.
He never knew that he could be so flustered just by hearing her words.
“Are you feeling better?” asked Grace, not caring that his hug was hurting her. All she cared about was what was wrong with him.
However, it did seem that his trembling was subsiding. It was not as serious now.
“Better…” Jason murmured, still holding her.
It turned out that she could frighten him so much and that she had more influence over him than he thought.
After a long time, Jason’s trembling finally stopped.
Then, he let go of his hands and said to Grace, “I must have hurt you when I hugged you.”
“It’s all right. It doesn’t hurt too much. I have pretty good pain. tolerance,” she said. After all, after such inhumane torture in prison, ordinary pain was nothing to her.
Jason’s eyes darkened as if he had thought of something. “All right, I’m fine now.”
“By the way, what was the matter with you just now?” she asked.
She would feel troubled if she did not know why.
“It was probably…” He hesitated a little before saying, “It was probably just a bad dream. I woke up with a start, and my body.
couldn’t help trembling because of the bad dream.” Grace’s eyes widened in surprise. They both had dreams tonight.
However, she was surprised that he was trembling with fear from nightmares.
“Was it a terrible dream?” she asked curiously.
“I guess so,” he answered.
“You guess?”
“I don’t remember the dream after I woke up. It’s just my body feeling the fear of it,” he said. When he heard her crying ‘Bryn’, it was a nightmare for him.
‘Did she dream of Brian? Why did she dream about Brian? Does that mean she has him in her heart?’
Even if he deliberately prevented them from recognizing each other and even if Stella Lindsay took her place, there seemed to be a bond between them which however much he tried to cut it off, it would not!
“All right. It’s only a little after 2 a.m., go back to sleep,” said Jason.
“How about you? Aren’t you going to sleep?” she asked hastily.
“I can’t sleep, so I might as well not sleep at all,” he said, getting up to get out of bed.
Suddenly, she took his hand and under his slightly astonished. gaze, pulled him back to the bed. Then, she lay sideways beside him and patted him gently with her hand as if she was coaxing a baby that would not sleep.
“Why don’t we try and see if you can fall asleep this way?” asked Grace.
Jason immediately did not know whether to laugh or cry. “Are your treating me like a child?”
“I think kids fall asleep easily this way. We’re just trying it anyway. Maybe it’ll make you sleepy? Why don’t you close your eyes?”
He hesitated for a moment, then slowly closed his eyes like she told him to.
She patted him again and again before saying softly, “Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. There are no more nightmares. I’ll stay with you.”
He did not know whether to laugh or cry. ‘Does she think of me as a child?”
However, it was as if that lingering fear faded little by little along with her pats and gentle voice. Then, sleep caught up to him.
‘Stay with me…’ It seemed that with her company, he would not be afraid.
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