Chapter 497 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

“Does it hurt?” she asked as her hand went to the back of his head. She heard a loud noise earlier. It must have been his head hitting the floor.

All she wanted to do was check the back of his head, but she forgot about their situation now. She was on top of him while he was naked to the waist.

Her hands reached over to touch the back of his head as she lay on top of him, so their bodies clung closer together.

He grabbed her wrist, and his hoarse voice rang in her ears. “Would you care about me if I said it hurt?”

Her body stiffened slightly, and she noticed how close they were. Her lips barely touched his cheek as soon as she lowered her head.

She stared at him. “If it hurts, you should contact the outside world immediately and go to the hospital for a check-up instead of enduring it when you have a fever. Jason, you only live once!”

He suddenly smiled. “You can’t bear to let me die, can you?”

His face that was flushing because of his fever looked so stunning with his smile, yet it was so fragile that she could not take her eyes off it.

Her heart seemed to ache because of his smile!

Finally, Jason called Terrence and told him about his fever, asking him to bring a thermometer and some fever-reducing medicine.

However, Terrence brought a doctor along just in case.

The doctor examined Jason’s condition and prescribed two types of medicine. It was alright if the fever was reduced within two days. If the fever did not subside, he would have to go to the hospital for further examination.

Jason frowned slightly, apparently not wanting to go to the hospital.

“Alright, leave the medicine here. You two can go,” said Jason.

Terrence looked at his boss and then at Grace before sheepishly saying, “Miss Cummins, please take good care of Master Reed.”

Without waiting for Grace to respond, he hurriedly left with the doctor.

Grace was speechless. In the blink of an eye, she and Jason were the only two people left in the huge mansion.

Grace read the instructions of the two medications given by the doctor and took the amount needed for one dose. She also poured a gla** of water and handed it to Jason. “Take your medicine first.”

He obediently took the medicine and water but did not take them right away. Instead, he looked down at the pills in his hand in some kind of trance.

“Are you really… afraid of taking medicine?” she asked hesitantly.

He was silent, and just when she thought he would not answer, his voice rang.

“I hate taking medicine. When I first came to the Reed family, a servant in charge of taking care of me secretly changed the vitamin pills I took every day with sleeping pills. Because that way, I would sleep soundly at night and she didn’t have to worry about me waking up at night and needing her to take care of me. She could even sneak out on a date with her boyfriend.”

Grace was shocked. ‘He must’ve been young… when he got back to the Reed family. Probably around six or seven years old. It would greatly affect children if they took sleeping pills as vitamin pills for a long time!’

She knew it did not affect him that much, though. Otherwise, he would not be in front of her in good health right now.

However, she could not help asking, “What happened afterward? How was it discovered?”

“I was curious and took a few more pills once. As a result, I slept for three days and got my stomach pumped in the hospital. It was only then that they found out that the servant had changed the pills,” he said, looking up at her with intense.

self-mockery in his eyes.

“You know what? That servant was the nicest person to me when I first got to the Reed family. She showed great concern for me. Every day, she would smile gently as she watched me take the ‘vitamin’ pills she had switched out.”

Anger welled up in Grace’s heart. “How could someone do this to a child just to make life easier and go on a date? Didn’t she think about the consequences of a child taking too many sleeping pills?”

In severe cases, it could even lead to mental distress in kids.

Jason smiled lightly. “There are many people like that in the world. They can easily sacrifice others for small profits.”

“What happened afterward? What happened to the servant?”

asked Grace.

“The Reed family fired her,” he said lightly.

Grace figured that if she was fired, the servant would probably have suffered for the rest of her life.

“Did you start hating taking medicine since then?”

“Yeah,” he responded lightly. Taking medicine would remind him of the pain of having his stomach pumped and the awful experience of him lying on the hospital bed weakly.

Even when Old Master Reed came to his ward to visit him, there was not even a hint of affection in his eyes. He only told him about his vitamin pills being switched.

“You were lucky this time. You’ll only lose your life if you ever trust others so easily again. I won’t help you even if you’re my grandson. You have no right to stay in the Reed family if your have no sense of preparedness!”

It was then that he found out how cruel his grandfather was to him. Old Master Reed… probably knew about his vitamins being switched.

Although outsiders saw him as the young master and future heir to the Reed family, only he knew how much he was treading on thin ice.

“I don’t like to take medicine, and if I do take it, I’ll take extra care and get them myself,” he said.

She said, “Well… Why don’t you…”

She wanted to take back the medicine she had given him so he could open the disposable package and take them out himself.

Before she finished speaking, he swallowed the medicine she had given him with water.

“You…” Grace looked at Jason in surprise.

His dark eyes turned to her almond-shaped eyes that were. full of surprise. “I’ll eat anything you give me.” Even if she gave him poison, he would take it!

Jason fell asleep after taking the medicine. Grace looked at him as he slept and was caught in a trance.

It was not the first time he had taken the medicine she gave him, but she had not felt differently until she knew why he hated taking medicine.

However, now that she knew the traumatic experience he had with taking medicine yet he would still take the medicine she gave him, she felt something else.

‘Why would he take the medicine I gave him? Is it because of trust?

‘If he trusts me, why could he trust the me who gave him. medicine but not my feelings? If he had given me a little more trust, maybe we wouldn’t have broken up at all!

Now, this trust seemed ironic.

Even when he was asleep now, his brows were furrowed and a thin layer of sweat had broken out on his forehead.

As such, Grace fetched a towel from the bathroom and gently wiped the sweat off his forehead.

“Mom… Mom…” he cried out in a stammer. His voice was so low it was almost a whisper. She had to be very close to hear what he was saying.

‘Is he… dreaming? Is he dreaming of his mother?’ Grace thought to herself.

She remembered hearing him say that his mother had left him and her husband when he was young because she could not bear to live in poverty.

All these years, his mother never showed up in front of him again.

She remembered there was a wound on his chest that had

R nearly killed him, though the scar had faded a lot now.

From the faded scar, she could imagine how dangerous it had been. A child with an injury like that could have easily died!

His mother had pushed him away and caused the injury when he tried to stop his mother from leaving.

“Mom, don’t… Don’t leave me… Don’t leave me and… Dad…. Don’t… Don’t…” His brows furrowed more and more, and even his head shook slightly as his broken voice escaped his mouth.

Another layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, which she had just wiped.

‘He looks just like a helpless child.

‘Or… maybe he dreams about what it was like when he was little. He’s probably only a child in his dream!

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