Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
The owner of the mansion probably liked lotus flowers very much.
‘Or maybe… It was the woman imprisoned here back then. who was fond of lotus flowers? Grace thought to herself.
Grace walked around the house, looking for Jason. Though he kept her in the mansion, he did not restrict her movements in it. At least she was ‘free’ within the confines of the mansion, so to speak. Finally, she stopped when she reached a pa**age and looked into one of the rooms.
She remembered seeing Jason coming out of this room once.
‘Would he… be in the room?”
She stepped forward and knocked twice on the door. When she heard no answer, she pushed open the door. However, to her surprise, it was a dark room. The room was small and heavy curtains covered the windows. The furnishings in the room were also simple… It was probably too simple, for the entire room consisted of a single display cose with a gla** cover. Inside laid a long ancient sword.
Grace thought it was an ancient sword because of the blade’s sheen and the degree of oxidation on the handle. It looked years old, and the blade was patchy with a lot of dark brown stuff that did not look like rust. A full-length black curtain hid the wall in front of the shelf. The room was rather odd, so to speak. However, she could see that Jason was not here.
Grace was about to leave when suddenly, she heard footsteps. behind her. Then Jason’s cold voice rang out.
“Why are you.
Here?” Grace immediately turned around and that handsome face. caught her eye.
“I was looking for you. I entered this room to see if you were here.”
“Looking for me?” he asked lightly.
He walked to the center of the room and approached the display case with the ancient sword.
“L… I want to contact Lina and Kyla. Lina will be worried if she can’t find me, and Kyla…. I’m representing her in her custody case. I can’t get out of here right now… And her case is also a little difficult.”
He pursed his thin lips as those dark eyes stared at her, examining the truth of her words.
Grace said, “I’m just contacting them to tell them something. I’m not going to say anything more than that Besides, even if I do say something, they wouldn’t be able to take me away even if they did find this place.”
“Indeed, they can’t take you away even if they found this place,” he said as he pulled his phone out and handed it to her.
It was not her phone but his! Fortunately, she had a good memory.
She remembered both. Lina and Kyla’s phone numbers. Therefore, Grace called Lina first. When Lina answered her phone, she was so shaken that she almost dropped her phone when she heard Grace’s voice.
“Grace, where… Where are you? Do you know how worried I was when Jason took you? Did Jason hurt you? How dare that son of a b*tch take you?! This is kidnapping. Kidnapping!” Grace immediately felt awkward. The phone call was on speakerphone. In other words, Jason heard everything her best friend said. Jason glanced at the phone with a half-smile.
Grace was afraid that her best friend would say something that might annoy Jason, so she immediately said, “I’m… I’m fine. Lina. I just called to tell you not to worry about me. As for Kyla, I’m supposed to help her with her case, but now I may not be around If I haven’t come to you in a week, can you please book even the 2 week
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“Grace, are you okay? Did something happen? Kyla Corbyn asked hastily.
afraid I can’t video call him these days, but I’ll make up for it later,” said Grace. After the call ended, she looked at the phone and looked up at the person in front of her.
“Jason, can’t you let me leave for a while? Even if it’s just during Kyla’s case? Besides, it won’t do you much good to keep me here,”
“Really?” he muttered as he pulled the phone out of her hand before saying, “Do you know what this room is?”
“Huh? She was stunned, not understanding why he asked that all of a sudden.
“There’s another name for this room. ‘Splashes of Blood” he said.
She could not help frowning. Such a name had an ominous ring to it.
“Do you know why it has such a name?” he asked again.
She shook her head. ‘How could I know that? With a low chuckle, he pressed the switch on the display case in front of him and the gla** cover over the sword slowly opened, exposing the ancient sword inside. Jason reached out and picked up the ancient sword.
Grace was immediately taken aback. The sword… was giving her a sense of danger.
“Remember when I told you that someone from the Reed family used to keep a woman here? That woman fell in love with him, but she still killed that man with this sword,” Jason said lightly as if it was just a story.
‘However… This actually happened!’ Grace was shocked. What he was saying now was a plot twist from what he said last time.
She thought the woman left with the man from the Reed family after falling in love with him. It never occurred to her that the woman… would use this sword to kill the man she fell in love with!
“Why? Shame? Remorse? Regret?
‘Because she fell in love with another man when she had someone else she loved deeply?
“Was that why she made this choice?
“Is it called… Splashes of Blood because blood is spattered on the sword?” she asked incoherently.
“That’s not all,” he said and walked to the wall lined with heavy
curtains, giving them a jerk.
The wall behind the curtains immediately caught Grace’s eye.
This wall was different from the other several walls. It was not renovated and looked just like what it looked like back then. The splashes of discolored blood on the wall were so obvious! Grace suddenly felt an urge to throw up! The many bloodstains on the wall were preservation of incriminating evidence! ‘Is it called Splashes of Blood because of the wall?’
“If you want to leave, you can kill me just as the woman did and then you may leave,” he said as he came up to her and held out the sword in his hand with its hilt toward her.
“Do you want to kill me?”
There was a touch of madness in those bright black eyes.
He was like a gambler who was gambling what place her occupied in her heart, and the wager was his life! Grace stared blankly at the man in front of her.
“Kill him? I’ve never thought of it!’ Even… Even if she had thought he was going to lock her up for life, she never thought of killing him! He stared at her shocked eyes with a stunning, relieved smile on his lips.
“You can’t bear to do so, can you? You don’t want me to die, do you?” Her throat was dry.
She wanted to refute him, but even spitting out a word seemed so difficult.
“You still have me in your heart, so one day, you’ll fall in love with me again.
Grace, let’s make a bet whether you’ll fall in love with me again. I’ll bet you the rest of my life,” he said firmly.
She only felt her heart constantly contracting. His certainty made her panic.
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