Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Grace followed Brian into the main house and they soon arrived at a studio.
His paintings were in it. They were paintings of… her as a child. The scenes of them in the woods when they were little, her grabbing his hand to prevent him from falling off the cliff at a time of crisis… and her coming down the hill with him on her back…
He had painted the scenes in his memory and placed them in this room.
It was unknown how many paintings there were.
Brian said bitterly, “I painted these over the years. I painted every time I missed you. It was as though I could make myself feel better when I painted.”
After a pause, his gaze fell on her. “Grace, I’ve finally found you after looking for you for so many years. But God seems to enjoy playing tricks on me by letting me miss you again and again. Tell me, if I had asked for your name, address, age, school, cla**, student ID number… would I have not wasted so many years?”
She was silent.
“Also… you’re not completely indifferent to me, are you? You visited me every day when I was hospitalized. You cared about my injuries, didn’t you?”
“If I had met you, helped you find a good doctor for Lina, and gave her the best treatment the night you came to see me, would you…
have never married Jason? Would there… have been some kind of possibility between us?”
He stared intently at her as if he wanted to hear an answer from her.
Grace sighed and said, “There are no ifs in this world. Brian, if I do feel something for you, it’s just because I think of you as a friend who has shared adversities with me. I’m thankful that you saved
It’s only natural for me to care about your injuries, but…”
Her mouth gently spat out the last words, “I’ve never fallen for you.”
Even though she knew it was cruel for her to tell him such a thing, she still wanted to tell him. She did not want him to continue putting his feelings on her and did not want his future to be filled with regrets.
His face was pale and almost colorless. He trembled slightly as if he were standing on the edge of a cliff and her words were sharp weapons. It was as if she could easily knock him down the cliff.
“So are you trying to tell me that you won’t fall for me whether… I miss you or not?” he asked in a mutter.
The tip of her nose suddenly felt sore. She was touched by what he had done for her, but… perhaps it could only be said that she did not know what love was when she had first met him. She only thought of him as a friend.
When she remembered everything afterward, her heart was already occupied by another person. She could not spare any extra affection to love another.
“Yes,” she gave him a decisive answer.
He looked as though he had been struck by lightning, and his phoenix eyes were full of pain. “Why are you so sure you won’t? You just said that to make me give up, didn’t you? Because you’re already married to Jason and pregnant with his children, so you can only tell me that, right?”
“No. Even if I hadn’t married Jay and had no children, I would still have told you that,” said Grace.
“Then do you love him? Do you love Jason?” Both of his eyes were staring intently at her. It was as if he was hoping with all his might that she could deny it.
However, before Grace could speak, another voice rang out.
“What does it have to do with you whether she loves me or not?”
273 Grace shuddered and quickly turned around to look at where the voice came from. She only saw Jason walking into the studio, his handsome face full of anger. “Brian, when did you have the galls to take my wife away so casually? If there’s a next time, Hart Group’s building will be razed to the ground!”
Brian seemed not surprised that Jason could break into the mansion and find his way here. His eyes were still staring intently at Grace, however. “What’s the matter? Can’t you give me an answer? Yes… or no?”
Jason took Grace’s hand and said, “Come on, let’s go home.”
It was only after he took a step that he realized she had not moved and was still standing where she was. Her almond-shaped eyes were looking at Brian as if he was the only one who existed!
Jason’s heart suddenly tensed. The five fingers that were holding her hand unconsciously tightened, and panic came over him. Then, he saw her pink lips parting slightly as she said word by word, “Yes, Jay is the one I love.”
Jason suddenly stiffened and looked at the woman in front of him in surprise.
Brian burst into laughter. “You’re lying. If you really loved him, how could you have gone down on your knees and begged him to let you go?”
Compared to the way the two men looked right now, Grace seemed the calmest. “Because I thought I could forget him and let go of my feelings for him, but I couldn’t. He has always been in my heart. Besides, I’ve sworn before his father’s memorial tablet that I would stay by his side for the rest of my life and be a good wife.”
Jason’s thin lips were pressed together tightly. The shock on his face slowly turned into grimness.
Unconvinced, Brian said, “He forced you to swear, didn’t he?”
Grace said seriously, “No, I did it of my own accord! Nobody forced me. Brian, everything I say to you is true. I’m going to have a good life with Jay and be happy, so you can stop being in love with me.”
After a pause, she looked around the room that was full of paintings. “I’m only an obsession for you. It was because of an agreement we had when we were little. That’s why you’ve been looking for me all these years. That’s how people are sometimes. The more they can’t got it, the more they want it. They’ll oven begin to see everything through rose-colored lenses. But I’m nothing but ordinary.”
As Grace spoke, she turned her head and looked at Jason who stood beside her. She lifted her free hand and placed it around his neck.
Jason’s face grew solemn. Those peach blossom eyes just watched as Grace stood on her tiptoes as she kissed him on the lips.
She was taking the initiative to kiss him, and he accepted the kiss pa**ively.
His eyes grew darker and darker. Then, he slowly closed his eyes and went along with her kiss.
After an unknown amount of time, she finally finished the kiss and looked at Brian as she panted slightly. “Jay’s the one in my heart. Brian, you’ve found me, so we’ve fulfilled our promise!”
Those dark phoenix eyes were gradually shrouded in despair.
‘We’ve fulfilled… the promise… so… we have nothing to do with each other now…
What he and she had all these years was only a promise…
Grace was immediately shocked when she walked out of the main house of Brian’s mansion.
She could only see several rows of people standing around. They were obviously Jason’s men. They all shouted “Master Reed”
when they saw Jason come out.
The maids and security guards at Brian’s mansion were being suppressed by these men, and they dared not move.
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