Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“I’m fine.” Grace steadied herself and calmed down. “Thank you for your help, Mr. Reed. I… I’m alright.”
As she spoke, she raised her hand to pull the large hand on her waist away, little by little. Then… she let go and wobbled in the direction of the private room.
However, Jason’s hand remained in the air in the same position as when Grace pulled it away just now. It was as if time had frozen.
His hand seemed to retain her warmth.
The moment he saw her, he almost could not help walking up to her.
When he saw that she was kicked by the man, his mind almost went blank. He was left with only a desire to kill!
He had told himself over and over again not to care about her. ‘But when I saw her, I still find myself caring about her.
‘Haven’t we already broken up?’
“Master Reed,” said Terrence. After all, there were a lot of customers around, and the club’s manager as well as security guards had all come over after hearing the commotion.
When they saw that it was Jason, the manager and the security guards did not dare to say anything. They just stood beside him quietly.
“She called me Mr. Reed just now,” Jason said this suddenly.
Only Terrence understood the meaning of his words, but even someone as smart as he did not know how to answer him.
After all, although Master Reed and Miss
However, the club manager and security guards did not bother about him.
What did it matter if he was the young master of Feng Lai Group? Could he compare to Master Reed?
Then, Jason’s unconcerned words instantly made everyone look at the young master with sympathy.
What Jason said was… “Cripple whichever leg he used to kick just now.”
It was as if this was only a trivial matter.
“Yes,” replied Terrence.
At the same time, many people could not help guessing in their hearts. ‘Who is that woman who just left?’
‘Master Reed would even cripple one of Feng Lai Group’s young master’s legs for that woman! That would be like declaring war with Feng Lai Group!’
‘Feng Lai Group is only a second-cla** family business in Emerald City, but… is it worth it to just stand up for a mere woman?’
On the other hand, Grace had stumbled back into the private room. Perhaps the conflict just now had made her feel as if the alcohol was taking effect more quickly, causing her head to get even dizzier.
“Grace, what’s the matter? You don’t look so well,” said a colleague.
“No… Nothing.” Grace forced out a smile.
“Alright, alright. Our welcome party today is almost over, so let’s end it here. Let’s pay the bill and leave. We should let
Grace go back and have a good rest,”
said Andrea Schwartz. Then, she called the waiter for the bill.
Their bill came to a total of 73,000
dollars, a bit more than Grace had expected.
However, Grace originally thought that everyone would go dutch, but Andrea Schwartz only smiled at her and said, “Grace, everyone came to celebrate you joining our company today. Why don’t you pay the bill? You’re Jason’s girlfriend, so you should be able to afford this.”
Grace did not understand Andrea
Schwartz’s intentions until now. She was deliberately forcing her to pay the bill so that she could go broke. At the same time, she could find out whether she and
Jason were still together.
Grace only found it nauseating as she looked at the smile on Andrea Schwartz’s face.
“I don’t have that much money,” said Grace. Her bank account only had a total of 7,800 dollars, which was all she had left.
“Grace, are you kidding? Don’t be so stingy. Even if you have no money, you can ask Jason to pay for you. He’s so rich. He would be willing to foot the bill for you,” Andrea Schwartz continued saying with a smile.
“I don’t have that much money,”
repeated Grace as her drunken almond-shaped eyes stared at Andrea
Schwartz.
Andrea Schwartz’s heart suddenly shuddered. Somehow, she felt fear.
‘What am I afraid of?’ Andrea Schwartz muttered in her heart. If this could not even force Grace to pay the bill, Grace and Jason were probably not together anymore!
When Grace said she did not have that much money, several other colleagues immediately became a little unhappy.
“What? Andrea Schwartz, didn’t you say Grace would buy us this meal?”
“That’s right. Didn’t you say her boyfriend is Jason? How can she not even afford a meal?”
Someone said to Grace, “Hey, Grace. Don’t keep up the appearance if you don’t have it. Now, great. You’re telling us you don’t have the money when it’s time to pay the bill.”
“I told you. How could Grace be Jason’s girlfriend? Her clothes don’t look the part. They’re years old and she took the bus to work this morning. No expensive cars were picking her up!”
“That’s right. Hey, there must be limits to telling lies!”
They criticized with everyone chiming in.
It was as if it was Grace who told them that Jason was her boyfriend.
Andrea Schwartz smiled like a winner while Grace was taunted by colleagues who had been enthusiastically welcoming her to the company not that long ago.
That was what she wanted to see. The more Grace was embarra**ed, the more relieved she was!
If it had not been for Grace, how could she have gotten herself fired from her previous firm and even struggled to find a job since then?
A male colleague could not take it anymore and said, “What’s wrong with all of you? Grace never said that she would pay for the meal. Since everyone ate the food, let’s go dutch.”
The others were embarra**ed to say anything when he put it like this.
After all, it was true that Grace had never said it. Besides, everyone in the room was working in the same firm. No one dared to say that they would not pay.
The male colleague calculated how much everyone had to pay and asked the waiter for the bill, but they were told, “Someone has already paid for it, so there’s no need to pay any more.”
“What?” Everyone in the private room was taken aback.
‘Someone has already paid for the bill? It was more than 70,000 dollars!’
“Could there have been some mistake on your part? No one here has paid for it,” asked Andrea Schwartz.
“There is no mistake.” The waiter smiled and backed out of the private room.
Everyone in the room looked at each other.
‘Paid? Who paid for it?’
Then, everyone’s eyes unconsciously focused on Grace. Grace only took her bag shakily and said, “Alright… It’s already been paid, so can I go now…”
With that, she staggered out of the private room.
Her head was feeling dizzy, so dizzy that she could not see the road ahead.
‘Was it… Jason who paid the bill? Only he would quietly foot a bill of more than 70,000 dollars.
‘We’ve broken up, but unexpectedly, I still owe him.’
Grace smiled wryly. ‘We’ve already broken up. I’ve told myself that I can only rely on myself from now on, but… Today, I repeatedly let Jason save me.’
She walked step by step. In the end, she did not even know how she got out of
Drunken Days.
“Um…” She suddenly stooped down and threw up on the side of the road.
She had not eaten much that evening, so there was nothing left to vomit after a while.
‘It hurts so much…! She felt dizzy and her stomach was churning. What she could see were the deep night and neon lights.
‘Am I drunk?
‘I guess so!’
She felt as if she was floating, and her mother and grandmother’s faces seemed to appear in front of her.
They were smiling gently at her as if they were telling her to stay strong. Even if she was alone, she needed to stay strong and survive.
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