Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Grace was sad when she thought of Lina’s resilience, but she was more proud than anything to have such a strong friend. She knew Lina would not be defeated so easily!
Even though Lina had broken up with Hadwin Stephenson, she did not give up on herself but chose to cooperate with the treatment to recover. She had even jokingly said to her, “Isn’t it only a breakup? How big of a deal is it? Few people get married after dating their first loves these days. At best, I’m just following the crowd. Maybe Mr. Right will come to me once I leave the hospital!”
Lina’s optimism made Grace believe that Lina would be happy in the future!
“That’s good.” Kyla Corbyn was also slightly relieved. “Grace, you and Lina shouldn’t end up like me.”
She would never fall in love again.
The two of them did not notice that the ward’s door was not closed. A figure flashed faintly outside the door.
Grace and Jason returned to Reed Residence. Grace was about to go upstairs, but Jason pulled her into his arms.
“What’s the matter?” she could not help asking. The sudden embrace seemed a little unusual.
On their way home today, he had spoken very little and would only look at her while in a daze. However, he had said it was alright when she asked him what was bothering him.
“I just wanted to give you a hug,” muttered Jason. He recalled her and Kyla Corbyn’s conversation through the crack of the door when he accompanied Martin Weiss to Kyla Corbyn’s ward.
When Kyla Corbyn said she could not accept someone who had hurt her, Martin Weiss had staggered and needed to put his fist in his mouth to silence his sobs.
At that moment, it seemed that even crying had become a luxury.
“Don’t you hug me every day? Haven’t you had enough?” Grace laughed.
“It’s not enough.” It might never be enough for him.
Grace looked at the hands that were gently wrapped around her protruding belly… Those were his hands. They were so beautiful and clean as if they were otherworldly.
“Jay, things between Kyla and Martin Weiss are probably over now,” Grace said out of the blue.
Jason stiffened slightly.
“I had a chat with Kyla today. Kyla said that she will never again accept someone who has hurt her. She can’t accept them no matter how much she used to love that person. People’s feelings change. No matter how much they love someone, that love will eventually be devoured by time and pain.”
Grace muttered. She could relate to her conversation with Kyla Corbyn today.
It was like how she had once loved Sean. Even though she had not loved Sean to the extent that she could sacrifice everything for him, she could still say that he was her first love.
However, after Sean hurt her, that love was eventually gone and vanished into smoke!
Jason’s breathing seemed to be getting a little hurried. He heard Grace
“Really? If… If one day you find out that I had hurt you before, will you never accept me again no matter how much I beg for your forgiveness?” He asked that question with such difficulty that every word seemed to be squeezed out of his throat.
Grace turned around and looked at the man in front of her with a somewhat puzzled look. “Jay, what’s come over you? I keep having a feeling that you’ve been extremely uneasy these days.”
Jason was silent. ‘Uneasy… Yeah! I’m indeed uneasy.’
Kyla Corbyn and Martin Weiss’s incident had made him uneasy. He feared that the same fate might befall him.
“If what I said made you uneasy, I can explain! I just thought of Sean and felt a little emotional because of what Kyla said. You don’t have to overthink it. How could you have possibly hurt me?
Besides…”
She paused. She raised her hand and gently caressed his brows, which seemed to be tinged with melancholy. “Didn’t we make a promise where I’ll forgive you as long as you cry in front of me?”
She deliberately said this to lighten the mood, wanting to get rid of the sadness in his eyes.
Sure enough, after listening to her words, his eyes lit up slightly. The melancholy seemed to gradually disperse.
“Grace, my feelings for you will never change. They won’t change no matter what happens in the future.” He placed her right hand to his heart and put her palm flat against his chest. “So promise me that your feelings for me will never change too!”
She blinked. ‘Feelings… change! It’s what I learned today, but Jay is insisting that feelings won’t change.
‘My feelings for Sean had already died with time and pain!
‘I only have Jay in my heart. My feelings for him…’
“They won’t change. My love for you will never change, Jay.”
She said solemnly, and the palm of her hand seemed to feel his unusually fast heartbeat!
Perhaps some feelings in this world would change, but some would not!
Jason’s phone rang in the middle of the night. Grace opened her eyes in a daze, only to see Jason listening to the other end of the line with a serious face. A moment later, he said, “Got it. I’ll be right there.”
Then, he put away his phone and said to Grace, “I’m sorry to have disturbed you. Go back to sleep. I’m going out.”
“Where are you going?” she asked hastily.
It was late. It was no ordinary phone call if he was going out.
Jason hesitated a little. “I’m afraid Grandpa can’t hold on any longer. I’m going to see him one last time.”
Grace was immediately shocked. She had known all along that Old Master Reed’s health was worsening and he would not be able to hold on much longer, but… so soon?
‘The old man who raised Jay, so to speak, is leaving this world?’
Grace had an indescribable feeling for a moment.
“I’ll go with you,” she said at once.
“No thanks. I can go myself,” he said.
She insisted and said, “I’ll go with you! He’s your grandfather. Even if the old master doesn’t like me, I’m still his granddaughter-in-law. I can wait for you outside if he doesn’t want to see me.”
Unable to do anything about her insistence, he eventually agreed.
Therefore, they went to the hospital together.
When they arrived at the hospital, Jason asked the bodyguards who followed them to watch over Grace. He then walked into the ward.
In the ward, the scrawny Old Master Reed was lying on the white hospital bed. A man who used to be so powerful was eventually reaching the end of his life.
Old Master Reed was trying to hold on. When he saw Jason walking in, he trembled and said, “You… You’ve come…”
“Yes, I’m here,” replied Jason.
One could say that he did not have much affection for Old Master Reed. The relationship they shared was more like that of a mentor and a trainee.
The trainee could be gotten rid of at any time, just like a chess piece. If it was useful, it could remain on the chessboard. If it was useless, it would only be discarded like a sacrifice!
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