Chapter 394 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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Grace looked up in surprise at Brian. “Mr. Hart, is there anything else?”

Brian seemed distracted as he stared at his hand that was holding Grace’s arm. ‘What’s wrong with me? I’ve told myself not to bother about this woman.’

He had made an exception for not watching her fall.

However, when he saw that she was about to limp away, he subconsciously wanted to offer to send her home!

‘So what if she has some old problem with her leg? This woman brought this upon herself!’

She could easily get Curtis Row to sign the document through Jason’s connections, but she just had to go to so much trouble.

“Brian.” Stella looked anxiously at Brian and wished she could just pull his hand away from Grace’s arm!

‘I should be his savior, but why does he have to bother about Grace?’

Brian finally seemed to come back to his senses and promptly withdrew his hand. “Why didn’t Jason come with you?”

However, Grace did not answer. She just lowered her head and limped away from the banquet room, suppressing the pain in her knee.

Brian stared at the figure that left somewhat awkwardly, his thin lips pressing into a straight line.

Stella looked at Brian with unconcealed concern and jealousy. The way he looked at Grace’s departing back made her feel as if he only had Grace in his eyes!

‘Even if I’ve taken Grace’s place… Is there still something I can’t replace?’

‘No! No way!

‘I’ll take Grace’s place completely one day. I’ll be the one to stand beside him and have the last laugh!’

Grace took the bus and went back to her rental house. Her legs were so sore that she could hardly lift them. She took out two band-aids from her first aid kit and applied them on her knees.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt the heat in her knee and the easing pain.

Tonight had been like a battle for her.

She was exhausted, and her back was covered with a layer of cold sweat.

It seemed that even if it was already summer, her joints could not endure the cold air-conditioning for too long.

The encounter with Brian and Stella this evening was a surprise. When Brian grabbed her by the arm and asked about Jason right before she left, she felt a pang in her heart again.

‘If it was back in the old days, Jay would probably have accompanied me if I was going to a place like a nightclub.’

Curtis Row would not have the guts to keep her standing for so long.

‘If my knee was hurting, Jay would hold me carefully and rub my knee.

‘It’s just that… All of this no longer exists!’

The sweeter and intimate they once were, the more it set off the cruelty now!

‘My Jay is gone!’

Grace thought she was done with the nightclub incident. However, the next day after work, she saw Brian waiting at the door of her rental house.

Grace immediately stopped, surprise flashing in her eyes.

“Do you live here now?” asked Brian.

“Yeah,” she replied, wondering why Brian was here.

However… Since Brian knew that this was where she lived now, he must have checked some basic information about her current situation.

“I’m curious to know why you’d rent a house in a place like this. Don’t you live at Reed Residence? Why would Jason let you live here?” he asked.

Although he told himself not to bother about her, he had her checked out anyway after the nightclub incident last night. It was then he found out that she was working as an a**istant at a law firm and was living in such an area.

This seemed inconceivable to him. ‘If she insisted on being a mere a**istant in the law firm, then why would Jason allow her to move out of Reed Residence to live in such a place?’

He could see Jason’s concern for her. Jason could even go against the Hart family for her. Otherwise, how could he have let her go again and again?

However… This was completely beyond his expectation.

Instead of asking Jason, he came to her instead!

‘Why?’ Brian’s phoenix eyes were fixed on

Grace’s comely face. He always thought that this was how the little girl he had been looking for would grow up to look like.

‘Did I come here only to see her one more time?’

Brian laughed. He had no feelings for her anymore. He came just because he was curious and wanted to find out the truth.

Grace bit her lip and met Brian’s eye.

“I broke up with Jason, so now I live here. What’s so weird about that?”

“Broke up?” Brian was surprised.

Very few things surprised him, but now he was shocked!

‘Jason… broke up with Grace? How is that possible? The man who didn’t even allow others to have any ideas about her would break up with her?’

Brian had known Jason for years, so he knew that he was cold and had never been interested in women. Grace was the only exception.

People like Jason would either not love or hold on to it forever once they fell in love.

However, now there was no forever. He had broken up with her!

“Why did you break up?” he asked as he stepped closer.

“That’s personal, and I don’t feel the need to tell you, Mr. Hart.” She took two steps back from him, putting some distance between them. “If there’s nothing else, I want to go home and rest.”

As she spoke, she took out the key, opened the door of the rental house, and went straight in before closing the door.

Brian was left standing in a trance outside the house.

Brian stared at the tightly closed door. Somehow, her calm expression when she told him about her breakup with Jason made his heart ache a little.

Her calm attitude seemed to be suppressing too much pain.

‘I… shouldn’t bother about her, but why…do I seem to do it anyway?’

Brian raised his hand slowly, pressing it against his heart.

His heart was beating one beat after another, more intense than usual…

Patrick did not expect Jason and Brian to visit him today.

“What’s going on? The two of you have never liked to visit me. Why don’t I get someone and we’ll play a few rounds of mahjong?” joked Patrick.

Brian slightly raised his eyes and looked at Jason before saying, “I’m here to see him.”

“You’re in luck. It’s rare for Jay to visit me today,” Patrick said as he took out a few gla**es and a bottle of wine. He poured each of them a gla** of wine. Then, he picked up his gla** and took a sip.

‘Mhmm… It’s good wine. It’s worth half a million dollars.’

Jason looked at Brian, and their eyes met directly. “You came to see me?”

“I just want to confirm if you and Grace have really broken up?” asked Brian.

For a split second, the man’s cold peach blossom eyes shrank, and a touch of gloom appeared in his eyes.

Patrick, who was tasting the wine, had not even swallowed it before he spat it out.

“They broke up?” Patrick’s voice was out of tune.

“What if I did?” Jason’s cold voice rang out, causing the pressure in the room to drop.

“I’m curious what made you willing to break up with her,” said Brian.

Jason had a cold expression on his face. ‘How I’m willing to… How I’m willing to… If it hadn’t been for this man… Grace and I were unlikely to break up!’

“What do you know?” Jason’s thin lips spat out these four words coldly.

Brian smiled faintly. “I don’t understand.

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