Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Brian asked, “Do you know where you were taken to?”
“I was blindfolded all the way. The car probably drove for about 20 minutes, but I was taken to a pretty old mansion. The interior is decorated in traditional Chinese style, and the buildings don’t look new. Besides, the entire mansion must be quite large. I only saw one part of it,” said Dr. Russell as he recalled.
Brian frowned. An old mansion that was about a 20-minute drive away from Dr. Russell’s clinic where he was taken away.
There were so many places they could have gone.
Besides, they might have taken a detour! Maybe they took Dr. Russell on a detour on purpose because they were afraid of being found.
“Grace… How was she when you saw her?” asked Brian after a while, but he asked somewhat timidly as if he were afraid of hearing something he did not want to hear.
“It was alright Nothing special. But… Jason cares a lot about her,” said Dr. Russell. It was rare for him to be nosy. “Are you really going to steal someone from Jason?”
“If it’s Grace, then… I will,” Brian answered affirmatively. Brian left in a hurry after getting enough clues from Dr.
Russell.
Maybe these clues were crucial for him to find… Grace!
When Grace was asleep in the middle of the night, she had a recurring nightmare of being beaten up in prison. Her body seemed to be receiving kicks. Bursts of pain exploded in her body.
Even her constant pleading for mercy was of no use!
She did not even know how long she had to endure the pain.
‘Will I die in prison? Who will mourn for me when I die?’
“What’s come over you? Grace? Grace!” A voice seemed to call to her.
‘Who is it? It’s such a familiar voice!
‘Who is it?
‘Somebody help me!’
“Ah!” Grace suddenly opened her eyes and sat up in bed.
Nightmares? Nightmares again?
She gasped, and a low elegant voice rang in her ears. “What did you dream about?”
Grace jerked her head up and caught sight of Jason’s face.
She said, “No-Nothing! Why are you in my room at this hour?”
“I couldn’t sleep,” he said, lifting his hand to dab the sweat from her forehead with a tissue. “You’re sweating a lot. More than when you were receiving treatment for your hands during the day. Did you dream about your time in prison?”
She stiffened immediately, and her eyes widened in surprise as she stared at him. ‘He… knows?’
“You were stammering when you were asleep, so I figured it out,” he said. It was because he had partly figured it out that he felt even more guilty when he saw the helpless and pained look on her face when she was asleep.
Hearing this, Grace smiled wryly. She had been nearby and heard him calling for his father and mother the last time he fell asleep with a fever. This time, it was the other way around.
“I just dreamed about my time in prison. I always have dreams like that, but I feel much better now,” she said lightly.
He pressed his thin lips together lightly before suddenly saying, “Did you start sleeping with the lights on again after we broke up?”
She was silent. She could turn off the lights and go to sleep when she was at Reed Residence. However, she had to turn on the lights to go to sleep again after breaking up with him.
She could not go to sleep if the lights were turned off.
Although Grace did not answer, Jason already knew by looking at her expression.
“I’m sorry,” he murmured.
Perhaps she was the only one who could make him utter these two words.
For a moment, she did not know how to respond to these two words.
“It’s late, you-”
“Can I sleep here for the night?” he interrupted.
She froze. “Sleep here for the night?” “Is it… Is it what I think?’
He said, “I’ll just hold your hand. Don’t worry, I won’t do anything else to you until you fall in love with me. It’s just hard… to sleep in that room by myself.””
Even though the wall was full of her photos, it only made him want to come to her even more frantically. He would be satisfied just quietly watching her sleeping face!
Grace suddenly thought of Jason’s insomnia. It seemed that only during the two days when he had a fever did he sleep well because of the medicine. At other times… it seemed as if she had hardly ever seen him sleep.
A few minutes later, even Grace was surprised that she agreed to Jason’s request and let him stay in the room.
However, she would sleep in her bed while he slept on the floor beside her bed. One of his hands held one of hers.
The scene reminded Grace of the time when she and Jason first met. They used to hold hands and fall asleep like this in the rental house.
“Sis.” He suddenly called her that way again.
She was stunned only to hear him continue, “Remember when we were in the rental house and you said we’ll huddle each other for warmth? That I’ll cherish you, and you’ll cherish me?
“I thought that even if we broke up, I could keep you as my Sis and let you stay with me, but… It turns out keeping you as a sister still doesn’t work.”
Whenever he saw her with Brian, he would be so jealous that he would lose control of his emotions and lose his cool.
At the end of the day, his heart was still in love with her.
“Grace, I hope you can cherish me and me alone. I’ll cherish. you more than anyone else…” Jason said as drowsiness gradually swept over.
Holding her hand like this made him feel secure and satisfied.
After a long time, Grace slowly turned her head and looked at Jason who had fallen asleep on the floor.
Grace had no idea when she fell asleep. All she remembered was that she seemed to be watching Jason’s face and as she watched on… she fell asleep?
It was a good thing Jason was not in the room now, and that saved her some embarra**ment.
Grace got out of bed and washed up. She walked out of the room and went downstairs, only to find Jason in the kitchen. preparing breakfast.
“You’re awake. Breakfast will be ready in a minute,” said Jason.
She looked at him as he busied himself in the kitchen. During her few days here, he did all the cooking except when he had a cold, and that was when she would prepare the food.
However, she had never watched him prepare the food and it was something new to see it now.
Sure enough, as he had said, it was ready in a minute.
White porridge, steamed buns, a few dishes, and dried beancurd sheets-it was a very Chinese-style breakfast.
Looking at the breakfast in front of her, Grace guessed that few people in Emerald City had ever eaten breakfast prepared by Jason.
“Did you… sleep well after I fell asleep yesterday?” she could not help asking as she ate the white porridge.
“That’s my line. I probably went to sleep earlier than you yesterday,” he said.
Grace was rendered speechless.
“But when I woke up this morning, you were…” Jason wanted to speak but stopped on second thought.
Grace said quickly, “What did I do?”
“Nothing. You were just leaning over the edge of the bed with your face in my direction like you had been watching me all night,” he said.
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