Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
After four days in the hospital, Lina could finally be discharged.
Her baby was safe for now. However, according to the doctor, she had better stay at home and rest in bed for the next three months. She also had to take her prescribed progesterone shots at the community health center.
Lina went back to her office after she was discharged from the hospital and applied for a sabbatical leave.
The director called her into his office. “Are you really pregnant?”
“Yeah, I’m pregnant. My baby is unstable, so the doctor told me to stay in bed as much as possible during the next three months. Sorry, I know my pregnancy has brought trouble to the design office,” said Lina.
After all, she worked in a small design office. If she took a sabbatical, her colleagues would have to take on extra work to make up for her absence. If they hired someone else, the new hire would be placed in an awkward position when she returned.
“I’ll try to handle the projects you have on hand. You’re an old employee, so I won’t give you a hard time. You can ask for a sabbatical, but you need to finish some work at home,” the director said cheerfully.
“Okay!” replied Lina.
Once she got back to her desk, Lina dealt with the projects at hand and handed over what she ought to hand over.
By afternoon, everyone knew about her pregnancy.
Many nosy colleagues wondered who the father of her baby was!
“Lina, is the baby in your belly Hadwin Stephenson’s?” Some colleagues surmised.
Another group of colleagues instantly rushed over. “Wow, is Lina going to marry into a rich family?”
“Lina is going to be a young madam!”
“Wow, I’m so envious of her!”
Before Lina got to say anything, someone poured cold water over her with their words. “Oh, some people just want to get to the top through their baby. If it were so easy to marry into rich families, those rich families would have long been overcrowded.”
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“I know, right? I heard that Hadwin Stephenson left Emerald City a few days ago. If he wanted to marry Lina, he would have brought Lina with him.”
“Lina, let’s hope it’s not all for nothing. Rich and powerful families have no lack of children. As long as they’re rich, many women are willing to bear children for them. However, there aren’t many who get to join them.”
“Yeah, rich and powerful families look at family backgrounds. when finding someone to marry! Does she think she can do anything she wants now that Hadwin Stephenson has broken up with the heiress of the Jackson family?”
There was no shortage of cynicism in these remarks. Lina glanced indifferently at the colleagues around her and did not care about their comments. Since she planned to have a baby out of wedlock, these gossips and cynicism were inevitable.
She had already mentally prepared herself, so she just continued handing over her work. Once she was done, she packed up her things and went to human resources to go through the procedures for her sabbatical leave.
Once Lina got out of the design office, she took a long breath and looked down at her flat belly. “Be good and stay in my belly for ten months!”
She hailed a taxi and headed to the community health center to get her progesterone shots.
As she watched the flashing street scene outside the car, she recalled Hadwin Stephenson’s face.
‘Has Hadwin Stephenson… left Emerald City? He won’t have anything to do with me anymore, just like I wanted. Are we really strangers from now on?’
Lina smiled wryly, telling herself to stop thinking about Hadwin Stephenson. Since she had said in front of Hadwin Stephenson that she would not regret it, then there was no point thinking about that man now.
The taxi stopped at the entrance of the community health center. Lina got off and walked inside. She did not notice there was a car parked not far away. The person in the car was looking at her coldly.
“Miss Jackson, we’ve looked it up. Lina comes to this community health center every day for her progesterone shots, which were prescribed by Municipal Women’s Hospital. She has to get these shots regularly for the long-term,” the man in the front of the car said to Katherine Jackson.
“What about Hadwin Stephenson? He has gone back to J City. How is he doing?” asked Katherine Jackson.
“Everything is as usual after Mr. Stephenson returned to J City, but he has attended two parties held by J City’s socialites. It seemed to be of Mr. Stephenson’s own volition,” the subordinate replied.
A meaningful glint flickered in Katherine Jackson’s eyes. These so-called banquets held by socialites were, to put it bluntly, blind date banquets held by the high society. If it were in the past, Hadwin Stephenson would never attend this sort of banquets.
Did it mean Hadwin Stephenson had gotten over Lina, which was why he was attending them?
After lifting the blood curse, Hadwin Stephenson gave the Jackson family a good price and acquired their properties as they had agreed. However, the money could hardly make up for Katherine Jackson’s reluctance.
She had lost her glory, and it was all only because Hadwin Stephenson wanted to avenge Lina!
Frankly speaking, she ended up where she was now because of Lina!
Lina had Hadwin Stephenson protecting her before this, so she dared not touch her. However, since Hadwin Stephenson had left Lina, she wanted Lina to pay the price!
A slight smile appeared on the corners of Katherine Jackson’s 214
lips. Then, she thought of how she had met Lina’s eyes when she was driving past her car that was parked outside the mansion that morning.
‘It seems that Lina has misunderstood the situation!
‘So what if Hadwin Stephenson loved Lina deeply and suffered so much for her? It still can’t beat a misunderstanding!
Old Lawyer Watts and Mrs. Watts finally decided to have the operation in Emerald City. Grace helped contact the hospital where she had the operation last time. Dr. Russell had worked with those specialists before, so everything went more smoothly this time.
Besides, Mrs. Watts’s operation was much simpler than Grace’s. It took about three hours before she was pushed out of the operating room.
When Mrs. Watts woke up from anesthesia and saw Mick Reed, Jasper Reed, and Grace in the ward, a faint trace of disappointment flickered in her eyes. “Where’s Jason? He…
He…”
Mrs. Watts spoke but stopped mid-sentence.
“Jay has something to do at work, so he didn’t come. I’ll bring him to see you later, Mrs. Watts,” said Grace.
“No thanks. Don’t bother. I… I just asked because I didn’t see him. He must be busy running such a large company,” Mrs. Watts said quickly.
After that, Mrs. Watts had a few words with the two young ones and got a little tired, so Grace said, “Mrs. Watts, get some rest. I’ll visit you again tomorrow. Just call me if you need anything.”
“Okay,” answered Mrs. Watts. Just as Grace was turning around, she suddenly said, “Thank you, Grace.”
“Don’t mention it.” Grace smiled and led her two children away.
Mrs. Watts stared blankly at Grace’s back. She was not thanking her for the operation but was referring to her staying by Jason’s side, giving him a real home and three adorable children.
As a mother, she had only caused her son pain. Fortunately, Grace had healed him.
Old Lawyer Watts sighed gently and said to his wife, “Don’t overthink it. If you really want to see Jason… I’ll just tell Grace to try and bring Jason to the hospital to visit you more often.”
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Mrs. Watts hurriedly said, “Don’t… I don’t deserve to have him visit me. Besides… I’m afraid I’ll give myself away in his presence.”
Whenever she looked into her son’s eyes, which were similar to hers, she could not help but feel afraid. They were sharp and calm as if he could see through her at any time. She could also feel him silently rebuking her for what she had done back then.
“The doctor said that you need to be hospitalized for about a week. We’ll return to L City after a week. No one will know about all this,” said Old Lawyer Watts.
Mrs. Watts nodded gently. She probably would not return to Emerald City after going back to L City. “Milo, I want to visit Kim’s tomb before I leave. I… I’ve never felt more sorry for anyone in my life. I want to apologize to him personally.”
Old Lawyer Watts said, “Let… Let’s tell Grace that, then. There shouldn’t be a problem. Just keep your emotions in check and don’t let them sense anything.”
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