Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
She closed the bathroom door and looked at the mirror in front of the sink. Looking at the reflection in the mirror, she was ghastly pale.
Maybe she should be glad it was dark enough that they could not see each other’s faces earlier, or maybe she would have had a real breakdown.
Mrs. Watts’s kindness to her flashed through her mind. The person she once considered her mother was the one who hurt Jay the most!
What should she do to get the best of both worlds?
She seemed to be stuck in between them.
“Ah…” She instantly burst into tears. She bit her lip and tried to suppress her crying, fearing that Jason would hear her from outside.
“Boo-hoo… Boo-hoo…” The sobs and repressed cries rang out in the bathroom. Grace leaned over the sink as she shed tears. It was as if she wanted to vent all her struggles and pain over the past few days.
“How did this happen… What should I do… What on earth should I do…” she kept saying, but there was no answer.
What she did not know was that Jason was leaning against the bathroom door outside, frowning slightly as he slowly clenched his hands at his sides.
‘Does she care that much about that woman? Does she know even if she’s not pleading, every look she gives me and every time she tries to speak but ultimately stops herself is like a plea?’
“Grace, are you going to betray me?” he murmured.
When Grace came out of the bathroom, the lights in the room were on. Jason was sitting on the couch next to their bed, talking on the phone.
“Let her lay there. Take her straight to the police station if she takes one step out of there. Otherwise, she deserves it even if she dies there,” Jason said coldly.
Grace froze and asked urgently, “Is Mrs. Watts’s fever getting worse?”
Jason glanced up at Grace, tapped the end call button on his phone, and said lightly, “Didn’t we agree not to talk about these things again?”
“Jay, how is Mrs. Watts doing?” asked Grace as her eyes turned red. She had managed to wipe the tears off her face in the bathroom, but now they seemed to come pouring out again.
“Are you worried about her?” he asked instead of replying to her question.
“She used to take care of me and cared a lot about me. I can’t be indifferent,” said Grace.
He raised his hand and brushed it gently over her swollen eyes. “But what’s the point even if you know how she’s doing now?”
“Jay, if you really want to take revenge on Mrs. Watts, at least get her a doctor. Otherwise, at her age, she’ll probably die if the fever gets serious,” said Grace.
Jason suddenly chuckled. “She’ll ‘probably’ die, but what about my father? He did die! Grace, do you know what real revenge is? She’s only having a fever now. I haven’t had her mutilated, her tongue cut, or her eyes gouged out. I didn’t even break her arms or legs. I’ve been nothing but merciful. What else do you want from me?”
He would probably have made the woman more miserable if it had not been for Grace!
Grace gasped and looked at the man in front of her in shock.
Jason gently stroked the hair beside her cheek. “Did I scare you?”
“I…” Her throat felt utterly dry.
“But Grace, this is me-the real me.” He showed her his dark side. “But you never have to be afraid of me. I’ll never hurt you!”
Grace stared at Jason for a long time before murmuring, “I know you won’t hurt me, but Jay, are you sure you can’t let me see my mentor and his wife?”
He said, “It’s unnecessary. If they want to spend the rest of their lives in prison, that’s their choice, isn’t it?”
Due to Mrs. Watts’s guilt and remorse, she probably would not avoid this punishment, and her mentor would probably accompany Mrs. Watts.
“Alright, it’s late. Let’s rest early,” Jason said to Grace, and she replied in a low voice.
The next day after Jason left, Grace went to a cabinet. She opened the drawer and took out a small box inside, which contained a talisman.
The talisman was the one Brian gave her when he came to the hospital to visit her before leaving Emerald City.
Brian only said that she should open the talisman if she ever came across any trouble.
However, she did not pay much attention to what he said at that time. She only thought that Jay would help her if she were ever in trouble. She would not even need Brian’s help.
It was recently when she opened the talisman that she found an address and a small flower carved out of amethyst.
Grace bit her lip slightly as she squeezed the paper containing the address and the amethyst flower in her hand.
Looking down at tMason Swansonty’s landscape, you would feel as if you were on top of the world and were trampling everything else under your feet.
Brian looked down at everything outside the French window. He had been high and mighty, overlooking everything since he was a child.
He thought he could get everything he wanted, but it turned out that he could get many things except what he wanted the most.
‘Should I say Jason is lucky, or that I’m unlucky?’
He regretted the mistake he made countless times. He constantly wondered whether their fate could have been rewritten if he had helped her when she came to ask him for help.
Perhaps… it was like what Grace said. The one she loved would always be Jason no matter what he did.
Just then, Brian’s phone rang. He picked it up to look and frowned.
This number rarely called him, unless…
Brian answered it and heard a voice on the other end of the line saying, “Young Master Hart, someone came with the amethyst flower and asked us to track down two people.”
Brian’s hand clenched slightly as he held the phone. He ordered the person, “Give that person whatever she wants.”
“Yes, I understand, Young Master Hart.” The call ended.
Brian looked down at his phone with a flicker of thought in his eyes. He had left the address just in case Grace would encounter any trouble.
However, he did not expect her to go there so soon.
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