Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
She immediately stiffened. ‘Regret? Maybe I would have gotten back together with him if I hadn’t done that. I was touched when. he knelt at my feet and said he would trust me, love me, and give me his everything!”
However… Even if they did get back together, it did not mean their problems were solved.
They had always been two horizons. Now, they were just getting back to the way it was.
“I have no regrets,” she heard her own voice replying.
The next moment, the pressure his body gave out seemed so suffocating that she could not help shuddering.
“Since you don’t regret it, don’t appear in front of me again. Otherwise, I won’t go easy on you anymore!” Jason’s voice rang coldly. For a moment, she felt as if he was about to crush her chin.
When Grace returned to her rental house, she was exhausted!
A lot of things happened today. Chase Harper, Stella, Brian, and… Jason… Everything seemed to be pressing on her mind, and she did not know how to deal with it.
Although she had thrown up so much at Reed Group’s entrance that she almost emptied her stomach, she did not have much of an appetite.
Grace thought about it and cooked herself some porridge. She reluctantly helped herself to it with some side dishes.
While eating the porridge, she turned on her phone to read the news. Since Lina had gone to Hadwin Stephenson’s place, she would browse the news of tMason Swansonty where the Stephenson family resided.
However, when she came across a news story, she was stunned. The headline of the news was: [The patriarch of the Stephenson family is missing? His whereabouts are a complete mystery. Are hundreds of millions worth of orders about to be canceled?]
‘Missing? Hadwin Stephenson’s missing?
‘Is this fake news or something?”
Grace took a look at the account that posted the news. It was a verified account, but the news story had not hit the trending topics.
There were all sorts of replies from the netizens in the comments. below.
Grace quickly dialed Lina’s phone number, but a busy tone.
sounded from the other end.
Grace called several times consecutively, but none of them got through.
A strong uneasiness immediately surged in her heart.
‘Nothing… can happen to Lina!”
Grace quickly began to search online for Hadwin Stephenson’s news and current whereabouts. However, the latest news about Hadwin Stephenson was only the gossip news she saw earlier about him being missing.
After all, Hadwin Stephenson was only a businessman, not al celebrity. Though he was the patriarch of the Stephenson family, the attention he got would still be limited after all. Therefore, the news did not become very popular either.
“What the hell is going on with Lina? Why isn’t Lina picking up her phone?’ Grace also tried texting, sending WeChat messages…
and so on. She tried every possible way to reach her, but there was no reply.
Grace hesitated for a moment and finally called Lina’s parents.
She had saved the number in her phone, but she never called the number because Lina’s parents hated her after her accident and imprisonment.
However, Lina’s parents had good reason to hate her. After all, it was because of her that Lina gave up on her studies and was now working as a small designer in a small design firm upon returning to the country.
Grace’s phone call was on the line for quite a while before someone finally answered it. A nasal-sounding female voice came from the phone. “Hello, who is it?”
‘It’s… Lina’s mother!” thought Grace. She said, “It… It’s me. You must be Mrs. Sweeney. I’m Grace-”
However, before she could finish speaking, Mrs. Sweeney yelled like she was venting, “Why are you calling me? If you feel any gratitude to Lina, don’t bother our family at a time like this!”
With that, Mrs. Sweeney just hung up the phone!
Grace was shocked and wanted to call her back, but no one answered. She figured that Mrs. Sweeney had blacklisted her number.
Grace immediately got up, grabbed her wallet and keys, and ran out of the rental house to head to the Sweeney family’s residence.
When she got to the Sweeney family’s house, nobody answered when she rang the doorbell. Instead, the Sweeney family’s next-door neighbor came out and said, “Are you looking for them? They’ve all gone to the hospital. No one’s at home!”
“The hospital?” Grace was surprised.
“Yes, I heard their daughter is seriously injured and is receiving emergency treatment at the hospital! I have no idea how things are going,” muttered the neighbor.
Grace froze. “What did you say? Lina is seriously injured and is receiving emergency treatment at the hospital?”
“That’s what I heard,” they replied.
“Which… Which hospital?” Grace’s lips trembled as she asked the question. The words seemed to have been forced out of her mouth with all her strength.
After knowing the specific hospital, Grace quickly rushed out of the neighborhood and took a taxi.
On the way, she kept telling herself that she would be fine. Linal would be fine. Maybe the so-called ‘serious injury’ was misheard by the neighbor.
Even though she told herself so, her body was shaking uncontrollably while her heart beat wildly.
When she came to the hospital and mentioned Lina’s name at the nurses’ station, what was originally a fluke finally came true.
Lina was heavily injured and just got out of the emergency room. She was still under observation in the ICU ward. She could only be transferred to the general ward once she got through the critical period.
Everything in front of Grace seemed to be turning gray. When she came to the ICU ward, she saw Mr. Sweeney and Mrs. Sweeney standing by the gla** wall. They were crying as they looked inside.
Not having seen Lina’s parents for more than four years, Grace never thought she would see them again in a place like this.
‘Lina… Lina is now…”
Grace’s legs were trembling. She was afraid to go up and see what Lina looked like behind the gla** wall. She was scared that she would not be able to bear the sight!
Step… by step…
The short distance became so far away.
When she finally walked up to the transparent gla** wall, Grace caught sight of Lina lying on the hospital bed through the gla**.
In an instant, Grace burst into tears!
Is that Lina? Is it Lina? The person in the hospital bed had tubes.
stuck in her nose and thick gauze wrapped around her head as. she lay motionless. If it were not for the changing numbers on the machines next to her, people would even think… she was dead!
“What the hell is going on?”
Lina had been so energetic when she talked to her on the phone. before leaving Emerald City, Lina also said that they would meet. up, go shopping, and have a meal together when she got back. Why did this happen?
Why was Hadwin Stephenson missing? Why was Lina so seriously injured? These incidents were like puzzles, and there.
was no answer to them.
“What’s going on… with Lina?” murmured Grace.
Her voice caught the attention of Lina’s parents. When they looked around and saw Grace, their anger flared up as if they had finally found an outlet.
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