Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
This melodious voice was his favorite sound. He had been dreaming about it, but now it was telling him the cruelest things!
Hadwin Stephenson’s face instantly paled!
“Are you sure… you don’t love me anymore?” Even his voice became strained, and he spoke every word with difficulty.
Lina said, “If I still love you, I wouldn’t be going on blind dates or trying to date again. I loved you wholeheartedly when we were still dating. But I want a clean breakup. I want to have nothing to do with you after breaking up!”
“A clean breakup?” He gave a bitter smile. She knew nothing yet told him she wanted a clean breakup. She had no idea what Katherine Jackson did after she got injured, much less what he did for her…
“What’s wrong with that?” she asked.
“Is it because of Anthony Sherman that you don’t love me anymore?” he asked. However, before she could answer, he said firmly, “You don’t love him. If you did, you wouldn’t have reacted the way you did when I kissed you last time.”
Lina’s expression changed. Her pearly white teeth bit her lip tightly. She looked like a small animal that was at a loss- pitiful and heart-rending.
However, he was the one who was at a loss!
“Lina, you don’t love Anthony Sherman, do you?” She felt his breath on her face.
She took a deep breath. “So what if I don’t love him? Just because I don’t love him doesn’t mean I love you!” She threw her arms around his neck as she spoke.
He instantly stiffened and grew paler.
Looking at her face as it suddenly approached, he instantly knew what she was going to do. However… he could not… He could not bear to push her away!
Even if she did not mean it and it would hurt him, he would still accept it…
Her lips rested heavily on his, just like how he had kissed her before.
She re-created the kiss, doing so mechanically that it felt rather frigid.
However, he could not help closing his eyes to savor it, fantasize, and think that they were alright and she still loved him!
When the kiss ended, Lina looked at Hadwin Stephenson quietly. “What does such a kiss represent, then? It means you can kiss someone you don’t love like that as well. I can kiss Anthony Sherman in front of you to prove it, but… I don’t want to kiss him like that just to prove something to you. Because that would be insulting to him.”
Therefore, this was the only way she could prove it.
“Hadwin Stephenson, I can’t agree with your attitude toward love and I can’t keep up with you. I can’t even help you in your career, so why pester me? We’ve both hurt each other, so we’re even now.”
His face grew paler, and he trembled slightly as a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead. “It can never be even. Lina, it can never be even between us!”
“So how can I make it even? Do you want me to sleep with you? Or do you want me to be in another imaginary relationship with you? You can have any woman you want. Why do you have to make it seem as if I’m the only one you want? That’s simply not true. You wouldn’t have broken up with me if so,” she said sarcastically.
“What am I to you?” he asked as he stared at her.
She met his eyes. “A man I once loved but won’t anymore. Because I can suffer some things once but not a second time. You’re highly career-driven. You want success and power, but I just want to stay with my husband and children to live a calm, ordinary life.”
They grew up in different environments, so their relationship had been doomed to fail from the beginning!
Hadwin Stephenson slowly got up when he heard that. One step, two steps… he slowly retreated.
The moonlight shone on him through the window.
His face was half-lit by the moonlight.
“You’re right. I can have any woman I want, so why does it have to be you?” He looked down with a small smile.
‘It’s been five years. Five years of planning to finally drive the Jackson family up against the wall, but it has also… erased me from her heart little by little.
There was a smile on his lips, but it seemed to her as if he was crying.
Lina only felt a pang of pain in her heart.
Stop! Stop feeling hurt for him! Haven’t I decided to get over this man for good? Then I shouldn’t let him affect me!’
Lina told herself, but she could not take her eyes off his face. The pain in her heart still came in waves.
Hadwin Stephenson did not give Lina a second look and silently walked out of the room.
Only when Lina was left alone in the room did she finally stop pretending to be strong. The fragility and pain on her face were things Hadwin Stephenson had never seen before!
The next day, the Sweeney family were told they could go home anytime they wanted.
Lina was momentarily stunned. I… can go home now? She had been looking forward to it, but when she was actually told that she could go home, her heart seemed to be filled with emotions that she could not explain.
Leaving here and returning home meant that all this was over. She would no longer have anything to do with Hadwin Stephenson.
She had refused him the night before. Was this not what she wanted?
“Miss Sweeney, do you want to go home today?” asked the bodyguards.
The Sweeney family discussed it for a while, and Lina said, “Yes, we want to go home today.”
“Alright, I’ll arrange a car to take you home later,” they said.
The Sweeney family packed up their things. An hour later, the black car they were in drove toward their neighborhood.
There was another car following them.
Hadwin Stephenson had followed them all the way here. His car stopped in the shadows on the other side of the road as the car in front stopped at the gates. He watched the Sweeney family get out of the car and walk into the neighborhood.
He longed deeply for that woman.
He could have any woman he wanted, but… she had no idea she was the only one he wanted!
It was because she was the only one he loved. How could he want another woman when he was only capable of giving her all his affection?
His dumping her back then had been a stop-gap measure. He did it without thinking of the future.
It was because he had no idea whether he had one or whether he could reclaim the Stephenson family and bring down the Jackson family.
He was walking on eggshells at that time. He could not even promise her in secret.
For five years, he had secretly kept an eye on her. He knew whatever was going on with her but dared not appear in front of her. All he could do was to endure it!
However, he had now gotten all he wanted but she no longer had feelings for him!
Hadwin Stephenson could not help laughing bitterly at himself. at the thought of this.
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