Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
Jason glanced indifferently at Grace’s half-eaten flower roll that her chopsticks were holding before looking at her face.
Her cheeks were bulging, looking a little like a hamster. The dark circles under her eyes and the exhaustion between her brows more or less showed that she had been outside all night.
There was silence all around, and now it seemed as if there was only the sound of their breaths.
“J-Jay, why did you come out?” Grace’s words were slightly slurred because she still had the flower roll in her mouth.
“Then it seems I shouldn’t have come out,” Jason said coldly and then turned to go back in.
“No!” Grace quickly said as she reached out to grab Jason’s wrist. She also tried to swallow the flower roll in her mouth, but she swallowed too fast that she choked and coughed.
However, her hand still grabbed his wrist firmly even though she was choking. It was as if she was afraid he would go back in once she loosened her grip and the gate would prevent her from seeing him again!
Jason slightly glanced down at her slightly deformed hand as it gripped his wrist. Then, he looked at her face that was flushed from the choking. Something flickered in his dark eyes.
“You don’t have to grab me like that. I’ll get things straight with you now that I see you,” Jason said coldly.
Grace finally recovered and looked up at Jason. There were tears in her almond-shaped eyes because she had choked so hard just now. “Then… let’s go inside and talk.”
However, her hand still did not let go of his wrist.
He pursed his thin lips, looked away, and went straight inside. She quickly followed.
It was not until the two figures were gone that the security guards at the gate heaved a long breath. ‘They’re finally gone!
‘But Young master Reed seemed indifferent… toward Young Madam! What happened between her and Young master Reed?’ The security guards could not help wondering.
Grace followed Jason to the old mansion’s pond. The lotus flowers looked more elegant and ethereal in the morning sunlight.
However, her face paled at the sight of the place.
She remembered it as the spot she had knelt in front of him. She had knelt to beg him to let her go!
Afterward, he and she became strangers. It was not until Lina was badly injured that she went to see him again.
‘Did he bring me here to… A feeling of uneasiness suddenly seized her.
“You wanted to see me. Well, now you are. So? What do you want?” he asked, looking at her coldly as he pulled her hand away from his wrist.
Grace bit her lip hard. “I… I came to apologize! And to beg your forgiveness,” she murmured.
Jason sneered a little and did not look at Grace but the pond full of lotus flowers. “I told you I won’t forgive you.”
His words stung her like countless long needles.
He was not even looking at her. It made her feel as if she were nothing to him. It was as if she no longer existed in his eyes.
Her dangling hands clenched at her side.
She did not want him to be cold and indifferent to her! Taking a deep breath, Grace suddenly strode over to Jason, grabbed both sides of his cheeks, and forced him to look at her.
“Jay, if you’re angry with me, you can scold me and even punch me several times. You can even tell me what to do so you’ll forgive me. But don’t ignore me and cast me aside! We’re husband and wife. Are you trying to divorce me by doing this?” Grace growled.
Jason’s eyes flickered slightly as they darkened. “So, are you trying to divorce me?”
Her heart suddenly throbbed violently, only feeling like the man would really divorce her if she said yes.
She said firmly, “I’m not divorcing you! I’ll only agree to divorce you when you detest me or have fallen in love with someone else!”
He sneered. “Is it because of the kids?”
She froze. The sarcasm and self-mockery in his eyes pierced her heart deeply. “It’s not because of the kids. It’s because I love you!” She wanted a life with him, not a divorce!
“You love me?” The sarcasm in his eyes intensified. “Yes, you love me. Maybe you do feel some love for me, but it’s too shallow. It can’t beat Mrs. Watts, who you only knew for two or three years, or your trust in Brian! You can betray me for that woman and go behind my back to ask Brian’s men for help.
What’s the matter? Do you trust him that much?”
Grace said, “I asked his men for help because I had no other choice. Even if it weren’t his men, I would have found someone else if I had the choice! I know I hurt you with Mrs. Watts’s incident. My brain couldn’t think of a better solution, so I used such a stupid method. As you said, I was sure you would forgive me because you loved me.”
“So what are you going to do if I don’t forgive you?” Jason asked indifferently.
She was silent, and his voice continued to ring indifferently in her ears. “Loving someone too much is tantamount to handing over your life to that person. I once told myself I was willing to give you my life, but when you chose to drive away and hurt me to send that woman back to L City, you destroyed my life, Grace.”
At that moment, he felt more pain from her betrayal than from his hatred for his mother.
It was also at that moment he realized that he was more concerned with how much he mattered to her than getting back at his mother.
He wanted to know who she would choose between him and his mother.
However, the result was nothing but disappointment.
It turned out that it hurt so much to love someone!
After hearing what Jason had said, Grace’s tears instantly came pouring out of her eyes.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
Jason said coldly, “Even if you apologize to me countless times, you won’t hesitate to choose someone else once you need to make a decision, right? So, you don’t need to apologize to me anymore. I don’t think we need to meet each other as well. You can stay in Reed Residence, and I’ll move to somewhere else.”
With that said, he pulled her hands off his face and turned away.
Grace instantly found her hands empty, and the warmth in her hands dissipated.
“Jay!” Grace suddenly called out to Jason, “You once said that when your mother left your father, even though your father knelt on the ground to beg her, she still chose to leave. Well then… What if I did that to beg for your forgiveness?”
Jason stopped in his tracks and turned around to look at her with shock and disbelief.
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