Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Grace helped wipe the sweat off his forehead again, then whispered, “Good boy. Go to sleep. No one will leave you.”
Even if her mother had died when she was little, her grandmother cared for her, but his… mother left while his father froze to death in the snow.
The room was quiet now. There was no one else in the room except him.
‘Is she… not around?’ He lowered his eyes gently and stared at his empty hands.
Even if he had forced her to stay in the mansion, she still would not stay with him. Just like his father and mother.
Though he had desperately begged them to stay, they still left him in their own way.
‘Am I going to be all alone after all?
‘Alone, just like before… Why should I care? Wasn’t I alone before I met her?
‘The only person I can rely on is myself!’
However, even if he thought so, there was still a pain spreading throughout his body as if there were dense needles pricking him.
just then, the door was suddenly pushed open and a figure walked in.
Jason stared blankly at the approaching figure with a touch of surprise in his eyes.
“Huh? You’re awake. I’ve just made some porridge. I meant to give it to you when you woke up later.” Grace put the porridge. on the bedside table beside him as she spoke. Naturally, she reached out her hand to his forehead.
‘Hmm, his temperature has dropped. It still feels a little hot though, but it’s much better than before.”
“Your temperature has dropped. I’ll take your temperature with the ear thermometer later,” said Grace.
“Did you… go to make porridge?” murmured Jason.
She said, “Yes, I calculated the time and knew you were going to wake up soon, so I went down to make porridge. However, you woke sooner than I expected. The porridge is still a little hot. Let it cool for a while before you eat.”
He replied hoarsely, “Okay. Have you…. been in this room all this time?”
“Where else could I go?” she asked, especially when he had nightmares earlier and slept restlessly. From time to time, he would stammer something and she had to play along and reply to him so he could sleep well.
After seeing that he was sleeping better, she found time to go to the kitchen and make some porridge.
Jason stared blankly at the woman in front of him. The pain spreading in his body seemed to be disappearing bit by bit.
‘She was here all along. She was with me all along. I’m not
alone!’
He opened his arms and wrapped them around her waist. He pressed his face against her lower abdomen as he gently closed his eyes. “It’s a good thing you didn’t leave me.”
Grace stiffened immediately. Jason’s hug was not that tight. She knew that she could push his hands away with just a little push.
However, her hands seemed so heavy now that she could not lift them to push him away.
‘Is it because I’m overwhelmed by his vulnerability and attachment?’
Grace froze and let Jason hold her. Sometime later, he finally loosened his arms when the porridge had turned cold.
“Eat… your porridge.” She finally managed to find her voice. Then, she filled a bowl of porridge from the pot with a small spoon and handed it to him.
He raised his hand to take it, but he was so weak that the bowl of porridge in his hand almost toppled onto the bed.
“I… seem to have no energy,” he said, wanting to catch the bowl again.
She looked at his current state and simply said, “Forget it. Let me feed you in case you have no energy and knock the bowl over.”
She sat down on a chair by the bed as she spoke and scooped up some porridge with the spoon. She gently blew on it and held it to his lips.
He opened his mouth obediently and ate the porridge she fed him.
He was as docile as a puppy, eating porridge mouthful after mouthful, but his eyes had been staring at her intensely.
That look of attachment made her a little uncomfortable.
“Did that woman… you talked about last time kill someone in Splashes of Blood?” She tried to make conversation and break the silence.
“Yes, it’s true,” said Jason.
“She killed someone from the Reed family, didn’t she? Did the
Reed family just let her go?” she asked in confusion. The Reed family was also rich and powerful more than 70 years ago.
Jason said, “Because the man she killed wanted to let her go. He even left a note before he died. It was no one’s business if he died!”
Grace was stunned. ‘Did the man expect the woman to kill him? Was that why he left a note like that?’
However, it was a time of chaos back then. The law was not as strict as it was now. If the Reed family did not pursue the matter, the woman could indeed escape from being imprisoned.
“What happened to the woman afterward?” she asked curiously.
Somehow, she wanted to know the woman’s final fate.
“She returned here. The room you slept in was her bedroom. She stayed here until she died,” he said.
“Until she died? Alone?”
He said lightly, “You could say there were two people, perhaps. She returned here pregnant and gave birth to a boy who later became the heir to the Reed family.”
Grace was shocked. She did not expect the story to end up like this!
The woman… who killed the man she fell in love with become pregnant with the man’s child. She chose to return here and give birth.
This feud was simply more tortuous than those TV series…
“Wait a minute!”
She suddenly widened her eyes and seemed to look at Jason in disbelief. ‘If I calculate the time, does that mean….” “The boy who was born is your… grandfather?”
He nodded and said, “Yes. It’s the Reed family’s secret, and I only found out a few years ago.”
She immediately felt awkward. ‘Is it alright for him to confide in me like this?’ However, she never expected to have met someone involved in the story he told her.
Until now, she still remembered when she met Old Master Reed. It had not been a good experience. Old Master Reed’s cold and inhuman ruthlessness made her shudder with fear.
If he had not arrived in time back then, Old Master Reed might have disfigured her.
He seemed to sense what she was thinking, and his thin lips parted lightly. “Don’t worry. I won’t let the old man have the chance to hurt you.”
She gently lowered her eyes and got up to put the empty bowl aside. “Rest well. I’ll go back to my room first.”
However, before she could turn around, his hand had already grabbed her sleeve. He looked at her with his chin slightly up, and there was a glint in his bright eyes.
She asked, “Jason, what are you doing?”
“You feel something for me, don’t you? Otherwise, you wouldn’t watch over me, make me take my medicine, make porridge for me…” His hoarse voice escaped his mouth little by little. His expression was one of supplication and longing. “Grace, fall in love with me, alright? I never knew I could love a woman so deeply!”
He was the high and mighty Master Reed to others, but he was willing to swallow all his pride just to ask her to love him!
Her mind seemed to go blank for an instant,
Brian tried to track Grace down with almost every connection he had, but it was not that easy. He had connections, but so did Jason. Of course, Jason could stop him from tracking them down.
Not only Grace but even Jason had not shown up in days.
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