Chapter 455 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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“Thank you anyway. However…” Grace paused and looked at the person in front of her seriously. “Yesterday, you said you would wait for my answer. I can give you an answer now. I don’t love you, so you don’t need to waste your time on me.”

Brian raised his eyebrows slightly. Speaking of which, this was the first time he had been rejected by a woman!

Whether he had mistaken her for someone else in the past, or now when he had fallen in love with her.

“Are you rejecting me because of Jason?” he asked.

nonchalantly, looking as if her refusal had not affected him.

“No,” she said as she shook her head.

Even if Jason had said nothing, she would still have rejected him.

After all, she was already emotionally drained. She was too drained to love again.

“Do you think I can’t commit to a relationship because I’ve had too many girlfriends before?” he asked.

“Like you said, you’ve had a lot of girlfriends. All of them were pretty, talented, and special. Why me?” asked Grace.

Even Evelyn had good looks. Otherwise, she would not have been offered minor roles one after another over the years.

Brian laughed at himself. “Then you should know they were just substitutes for my longing. I wanted to find that person so much that I would let these women be my girlfriends as long as they looked similar to her.”

His dark phoenix eyes stared at her as he spoke. “However, maybe it’s just like what you said. If I really missed the person, it doesn’t matter how many substitutes I find. I’ve been looking for a replacement, but this only made the longing stronger.”

The look in his eyes made her guilty suddenly. It was as if he had seen through something.

‘No. No way!’

He would not know that she was the little girl from his childhood. Knowing Stella, she would never tell him. She would only wish she could keep it a secret forever.

She pursed her lips together. “Haven’t you found the one you’re looking for?”

He said, “Yes, I have. It’s because I’ve found her that I’m even more sure that I love you.”

When he found the one he had been persistently looking for, he realized that his obsession was only what he thought it was. He never felt any butterflies in his stomach when he looked at Stella.

He could think of her as his savior, but he would never fall in love with her.

Grace was the only one who could give him that feeling…

Over the years, no matter how many beautiful and talented women there were, no matter how many girlfriends he had over the years, and no matter how stunning the women were, they would not make him feel that way.

However, Grace’s smile, no matter cold or indifferent, was always stuck in his mind.

Grace bit her lip uncomfortably for a moment before she said,

“Could it be your imagination? Just like how you thought… I was the one you were looking for, and now you think you love me.”

He suddenly chuckled. “Grace, does the fact that I’m in love with you strike you as so inconceivable as to warrant suspicion?”

She choked.

He stood up suddenly and leaned over the table before reaching out to take her hand.

“Ah!” She let out a cry and made a conscious attempt to pull her hand back.

However, his hand grabbed hers firmly, pulling it to his chest.

“Do you feel it? It’s beating faster than usual,” he muttered as his thick black eyelashes fluttered. “Do you know how fast it was beating yesterday when I saw the man who wanted to hurt you following you out of shot from the surveillance footage?”

He chuckled softly, half-confiding and half-sighing. “It was so fast that my heart felt as if it would burst. It became difficult to even breathe. My hands were shaking so hard I could hardly hold a gla** of water.”

His words, along with that elegant voice, crept into her ears.

She watched him intently. Every word he said seemed like a heavy weight on her heart.

“Grace, do you still think I don’t love you?” His phoenix eyes stared at her while her surprised look was reflected in his eyes.

She had never expected him to tell her such a thing.

Her hand that was against his heart seemed to be burning up.

“You…” She opened her mouth to say something but did not know exactly what to say.

“Grace,” he called out her name. “You can doubt anything but the fact that I love you!”

At the simple square table, the handsome man leaned forward and pressed the woman’s right palm against his heart.

The woman stared at the man in shock, bewilderment, and something more complicated.

For a moment, the man and woman seemed to be stuck in their own world-separated from the world around them.

The people in the diner looked at the two people. A few girls who looked like students even picked up their phones to secretly take photos.

Unnoticed by the diner’s customers, several black cars had pulled up outside. A tall figure came to a halt when they reached the entrance.

Their bright eyes stared at the two people who were looking at each other while the blood on their face seemed to fade instantly. At this moment, the person’s face was utterly pale. Then, the man touched his heart with his hand.

A surge of pain rose from his heart, and with each heartbeat, it traveled through his bones and limbs.

‘Ouch!

‘It hurts so much!’

Jason clenched his teeth and looked at the scene that was causing him pain.

‘Is this also the pain… she’s giving me?

‘It’s so swift and violent! The pain is almost unbearable!

‘I no longer love her, no? I only regard her as a sister now!

‘Why does it hurt so much just to see her with Brian? The pain is even more unbearable than yesterday when I saw Brian confessing his love for her at the police station.

A bodyguard immediately hurried forward and asked, “Master Reed, are you okay?”

“Make everyone else in this restaurant leave! Seal up the area ten meters from the entrance!” Jason ordered with a slight gasp.

“Yes!” answered the bodyguard.

After that, one of Jason’s men started talking to the owner of the diner while another started driving out the customers, telling them all the food they had eaten today was free of charge.

Some were reluctant to leave, but after watching men in black suits walking in one by one, they left out of fear.

Naturally, Brian and Grace saw Jason who was standing near the diner’s entrance.

Grace looked a little surprised as if she did not expect Jason to be here, while Brian seemed to have expected him to come.

Brian looked at Jason and said, “Want to join us for dinner? We just ordered, so they haven’t served the food. If you want to join us, we probably need to add two more dishes.”

Jason pursed his thin lips and walked toward the small square table.

Grace subconsciously pulled her hand away from Brian.

This time, Brian let go as she had hoped.

“Is the food ready yet? Brian asked the owner of the diner who was still in a daze.

The owner finally came to himself and answered, “Ah. Yes… Yes!” With that, he hurriedly served the dishes Brian ordered.

“We’d like to order two more dishes,” said Brian as he randomly ordered two dishes from the menu,

“Sure, sure!” the owner quickly replied before hurrying off to prepare the two dishes.

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