Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
He suddenly pushed her against the wall nearby. Then, he leaned over and breathed in her face.
“What makes you think I’ll regret it? Do you think you’re a fighter for justice because you’ve been a lawyer for a long time? How do you know I won’t be happy doing all that?” he asked with a sneer.
She froze.
“Do you know how I felt when I drank the bowl of vegetable beef soup you made when you wanted to drug me? Do you know how I wished you had never shown up at the freeway? Grace, I gave you so many chances, yet you still drove your car toward me in the end. When I let you pa**, I told myself that I won’t be the one who loves more from today onward.” His voice rang coldly in her ears.
Her heart shuddered, and she widened her eyes as she stared at him. “What do you mean… by that?”
He stared at her, and her face was reflected in his dark eyes. “Father was right. The one who loves first and the one who loves more will always be the loser. I don’t want to be a loser anymore.”
“Jay, you’re not a loser. I love you just as much. I love you. I really do!” Grace said quickly.
However, he just looked at her calmly, “Grace, I already told you that anyone can betray me but you. I said I wouldn’t forgive you if you betrayed me!”
She instantly turned paler as if her worst fear had come true.
‘Wouldn’t forgive… These words weighed like a thousand pounds and almost crushed her.
He raised his hand and stroked her cheek gently like a lover’s most gentle comfort, but there was nothing gentle in his eyes when he looked at her.
His long fingers slowly landed on her neck. Jason’s eyes suddenly darkened.
Her slender neck looked so fragile. It was as if he could easily break it if he used some force.
‘Would it stop hurting so much if she no longer exists?’ When he watched her drive toward him as he stood at the entry to the freeway earlier, he had the impulse to kill everyone!
Grace did not move or even struggle. All her attention was on the face of the man in front of her. She just stared blankly at those indifferent eyes.
She once thought he would never look at her with such a gaze, but she was the person who took away all the emotions in those eyes.
“I’m sorry… Jay.” She sobbed.
He trembled slightly. Then, he slowly closed his eyes as his face slowly approached her.
She stared at his face as it magnified before her eyes. Then, his lips brushed her cheek and stopped at her ear.
She heard his voice say, “Grace, I won’t forgive you.”
Her blood froze as if she was in an ice cellar.
Lina looked at her best friend’s haggard look and could not help asking, “What’s wrong? Did something happen?”
“I… I did something that hurt Jay,” Grace said bitterly.
“Did you quarrel with Jason?” Lina asked quickly.
‘Quarrel?’ Grace smiled wryly. It would have been better if they had just quarreled. She did not even know where Jay was right now.
He left Reed Residence and had not returned after saying that he would not forgive her in the mourning hall that night.
She went to his office, mansion, and even the street where his father died, but she could not find him.
When she asked Terrence, he only said, “Young master Reed wants some time to calm down and doesn’t want to be disturbed.”
Terrence refused to say anything more when she asked again.
“I was too full of myself. I thought he would forgive me because he loves me. But I’ll try to find a way to make up with him. Don’t worry,” said Grace.
Grace was afraid her best friend would be worried about her. After all, Lina’s top priority now was to rest. “By the way, how’s the baby doing?” asked Grace as she changed the topic.
A smile finally appeared on Lina’s face once Grace mentioned the baby in her belly. “The doctor told me the baby’s doing well today. Our heart rates are back to normal, and the drug is probably out of my system now. There’s no trace of that drug in the blood test. They’ll arrange an ultrasound to check on the baby later.”
“That’s good.” Finally, there was good news amid the bad news.
“But I didn’t expect Katherine Jackson to hurt me!” Lina felt a lingering fear. Her best friend told her that she was admitted to the hospital because Katherine Jackson had bribed someone in the community health center to add something else into the progesterone shot she was taking, causing her abnormal heart rate that even endangered the baby in her belly!
She thought she would have no conflict with Katherine Jackson after she broke up with Hadwin Stephenson, but who knew Katherine Jackson never planned to let her go.
“I’ve given the information to the police. They’re already looking for Katherine Jackson!” said Grace. They just did not have enough evidence so far, hence the police were just looking for her. They could not issue an arrest warrant.
“I wonder when they’ll catch Katherine Jackson,” muttered Lina. She would not feel at ease as long as Katherine Jackson was not captured.
‘And Hadwin Stephenson… Does he know what Katherine Jackson has done? Does he know that the person he’s sleeping with wants the baby and me dead? Or does he already know everything? Maybe he’s hiding Katherine Jackson so that the police can’t find her?’
Lina found herself getting muddle-headed when she thought of this. It was as if something was pressing on her heart.
“Hadwin Stephenson probably doesn’t know about it.” Grace seemed to see through what her best friend was thinking and said, “I don’t think Katherine Jackson has left Emerald City. If Hadwin Stephenson wanted to help her, someone would have taken the blame for her and she’d never end up being wanted by the police.”
Lina froze slightly, then she looked down and murmured, “It seems that Hadwin Stephenson doesn’t love Katherine Jackson or me that much after all.” A man like him probably loved his career and success the most. Women were just something to spice up his life.
“Lina, maybe Katherine Jackson visited Hadwin Stephenson’s mansion for something else. Maybe it’s not what you think,”
said Grace.
Lina said, “Why do you think a man would let a woman stay at his mansion for the night? And more than once? If the Stephenson family wanted to acquire the Jackson family’s properties, why couldn’t they talk about work during the day? Why did they have to spend the night at the mansion? It must be a private matter, then.”
Grace could not think of any other reason either. They could only find out the answer by asking Hadwin Stephenson or Katherine Jackson.
After coming out of the hospital, Grace went to the kindergarten to pick up her three children from school.
The three children were Mick Reed, Jasper Reed, and William.
As for Mason, although his name on the household registration record had been changed to Mason, he continued to live with the He family. The little one refused to go to kindergarten, so Grace had no choice but to give up.
Fortunately, the little one was looking forward to entering primary school. He wanted to quickly go to school with Veronica Barlow.
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