Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
His large hands continued to rub her stomach carefully, hoping to ease some of the pain.
“By the way, I didn’t get pregnant this time. I’m sorry I got you worried about nothing. Are you sure… you’re not disappointed?” Lina could not help asking.
“I’m not disappointed. I won’t get disappointed whether you’re pregnant or not because I know we’ll have a baby someday. I just…” He paused. “I just stopped freaking out when I knew you weren’t pregnant.”
She was stunned. She did not expect him to use the words ‘freak out, “You freaked out?”
“Yeah, I freaked out. When you were in the bathroom, I was wondering what I should do if you were really pregnant.” He looked up and stared at her. “If you were pregnant, I would
Stephenson family so no rumors can hurt you and you can take good care of the baby…”
It was what he should do and what he wanted to do, but….
“But Lina, if I did that, then you would be involved in the Stephenson family’s war.”
Lina was puzzled.
Hadwin Stephenson stroked her head. If he could, he did not want to tell her these things. However, he did not want her to misunderstand.
“Although I’m in charge of the Stephenson family right now, that doesn’t mean they’ve given up. They’re ready to take me down at any moment. It’s not a big deal if you’re just my girlfriend. However, if you get pregnant and marry me, you’ll be a threat to them!”
Lina blinked her eyes. She learned what was going on with the Stephenson family from all sorts of gossip magazines and the internet, but after he told her this, she realized the internal war of a rich and powerful family in TV dramas was so close to reality and she was also a part of it.
“I want to marry you when I’ve eliminated all the dangers in the Stephenson family,” he said. He just wanted to create a comfortable environment for her and keep her safe.
“Will it be dangerous?” she asked quickly, more worried about his safety.
He smiled gently. “Don’t worry. Even if there’s danger, I have a way to stay undefeated. I can’t be the Stephenson family’s patriarch if I can’t even do that!”
Before this, he wanted to be strong for himself. Now, he wanted to become strong, but it was more for her.
He wanted to better protect her and give her a better future!
Therefore, he could not lose in the Stephenson family’s unfinished war!
“Hadwin Stephenson….” Lina put down the enamel cup and looked at the man she loved seriously.
She was so wrapped in her love life that she forgot to think. that perhaps every step he took in the Stephenson family was as dangerous as dancing on the blade of a knife. He could fall at any moment and be covered in blood.
However, he never told her these things. He just doted on her, loved her, and did his best to satisfy her.
“I know I can’t help you much. I know nothing about business and can’t think of any schemes. I’m only good at drawing and fangirling, but…” His figure was reflected in her round eyes. “I won’t let myself become your burden, and I won’t let you freak out because of me!”
He was stunned.
She continued saying, “If… If I really get pregnant someday and the Stephenson family isn’t stable yet, we don’t have to get married. You don’t have to marry me with some grand gesture. I can give birth myself and protect the baby. Just let me have my day once you find it safe!”
Hadwin Stephenson was stunned. “You….”
“I’m not afraid of rumors. They can’t hurt me at all! I want your forever. For better or worse, I want it!”
Her voice was so crisp, and the look in her eyes was so.
determined.
Hadwin Stephenson immediately held Lina into his arms.
His Lina was stronger and braver than he had imagined. He had belittled her, thinking she needed his protection. It never occurred to him that she could be independent!
“I just realized the woman I fell in love with is so great!” Hadwin Stephenson chuckled and said, “It’s great to have fallen in love with you!”
He only wanted to open up a world of possibilities for her so
Grace did not expect Jason to bring her to the mourning hall in Reed Residence.
It was a mourning hall for Jason’s father where his memorial tablet was. Grace had only come here twice.
However… Jason brought her over without saying anything. He just stared at the tablet with his eyes lowered. He was holding her hand so tightly that she could not even leave.
“What on earth did you bring me here for?” she asked.
“Do you remember what you said to me here?” he asked slowly.
She was stunned as memories of the past recurred to her.
“It’s been a long time. I don’t remember anymore,” she said. Even though this was only a lie, she would eventually forget it someday!
She would forget everything about him!
“You don’t remember?” He chuckled suddenly. It sounded a little harsh in the mourning hall. “But I remember it very well.”
Jason said while slowly turning around. His eyes were as dark as the deep night as he stared at her face.
The way he stared at her made her a little uncomfortable, so she turned away and said, “Thank you for the two bodyguards’ help, but it’s late now and I need to go home! If you want to discuss the past with me, you needn’t. I think I made that very clear last time.”
However, he merely took her hands in his and pressed them against his cheeks.
She stiffened slightly. Her hands were full of the warmth from his face. His hands were pressing the back of her hand so that she could not move.
He was forcing her hands, pressing them against his face. If one ignored his hands, it looked like she was holding his face out of her own will.
“You told me here that you’d love me for the rest of your life, that you’d stay with me forever and never leave me,” he murmured while something was burning faintly in his dark eyes.
Grace shuddered. Back then, he had stood in the mourning hall in the middle of the night, filled with a sense of loneliness and vulnerability that made her heart broke.
At that time, she found him here in the middle of the night.
Looking at the way he was, she just wanted to give everything she had to protect him!
If he was insecure, she would do anything to give him a sense of security.
It did not matter if she had to repeatedly say she loved him or acted like she had no memory of her past with Brian during their childhood even if she remembered it.
When one thought about it, she had been… willing to do anything for him.
‘Now… Grace looked at Jason calmly. “So what? Didn’t you say you loved me as well? Then you said that you don’t love me anymore and want to break up with me. You go back on your words anytime you like.”
“Haven’t you ever heard what’s done cannot be undone?” she asked.
“There’s no such thing! I can take it all back, no matter how hard it is,” he said, rubbing his cheeks against the palm of her hands. “You know what? I was afraid that I’d love you too much and repeat my father’s mistakes. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to control my life…”
His voice rang faintly in the mourning hall. He told her the words he never told anyone and the fears he kept hidden.
Grace was slightly stunned, surprised at what he was saying.
He continued, “However, I realized how much I truly love you after breaking up. I love you so much I can’t live without you. Therefore, Grace, come back to me, will you? I’ll give you whatever you want, even if…”
He paused and looked deeply at her. “Even if you want my life.”
He used to find his father’s feelings for his mother unintelligible. He only found it ridiculous. Why would someone lose the will to live because of the betrayal and departure of someone else?
Now, he gradually understood that when one loved someone too much, then once they lost them, life seemed to become meaningless.
Grace could only feel a mixture of emotions. She glanced past him to the tablet with his father’s name engraved on it.
“So? You realize you still love me after breaking up and want to get back together again?” Grace suddenly gave a little chuckle, but there was a hint of sarcasm in it. “Jason, I’m not a toy. I’m not a toy you can break up with and get back together whenever you like!”
His eyes darkened. “You don’t want to get back together?”
“No, I don’t!” she answered him affirmatively. “You love me, so you want me to be with you again, but what if the tables are turned? If I love you, but you don’t love me anymore, will you say yes if I wanted to get back together with you?”
His thin lips were pressed into a tight line.
Looking at him, she said, “No, right? If you didn’t love me, then you wouldn’t look at me even if I got down on my knees and begged you!”
“No ifs.” It took him some time to spat this out.
She raised the corner of her lips, and her fingers suddenly moved to caress his eyes and eyebrows.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.