Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
That was his purpose in staying alive!
Grace’s heartbeat quickened as she arrived at Splashes of Blood. She did not have a good impression of the room, and she still remembered the suffocating sense of depression in it.
Grace knocked gently on the door, but there was no noise. from inside.
She bit her lip slightly and pushed the door open, only to see Jason standing inside. The shelf in front of him still contained the long sword stained with blood.
“Jay,” muttered Grace.
“What are you doing here? I thought I made it clear to you just now,” said Jason.
Grace explained, “You said you recovered your memory, but the truth isn’t like that at all! Jay, your memories aren’t real. I didn’t fall into the sea to escape you!”
Grace then explained why and how she fell into the sea to Jason.
What happened back then was a thorn in her heart. Speaking about it was tantamount to recalling it all over again, and it made her feel uncomfortable.
However, Jason’s expression remained unchanged after hearing what she said. “So, you chose to fall into the sea because you loved me and didn’t want me to die?”
She replied with a hum.
“Then why didn’t you say anything before? Haven’t you always told me that you don’t remember why you fell into the sea? Didn’t you say you lost your memory?” he asked.
“Well… I did lose my memory at the beginning and didn’t remember. Terrence told me about it at first,” said Grace as she apologized to Terrence in her heart. She… sold him out by accident.
“Terrence?” Jason raised his eyebrows slightly, “He told you? That’s not what he’s been telling me, but I’ll only believe what I remember no matter what he said.”
“But what you remember isn’t real!” Grace said quickly.
“So tell me, why didn’t you or Terrence tell me if it’s really as you said?” asked Jason as he stared at Grace.
“That’s because we were scared that your brain wouldn’t be able to handle the shock if you recalled me falling into the sea! After all, these memories were repressed by hypnosis, and there was no knowing what might happen if you recalled them by force!” said Grace.
Jason slowly walked up to Grace. “So, you loved me so much that you would rather die with our three children in your belly than let me die?”
Grace pressed her lips together tightly and nodded her head. His gaze was so piercing right now. It was as if he wanted to see through her.
His eyelashes quivered slightly as the corners of his lips twitched. “I told you the history of this room, didn’t I?” he asked out of the blue.
Grace froze, not understanding why he was suddenly asking this.
“Did I also tell you that my great-grandfather even asked my great-grandmother whether she regretted it and whether she ever loved him after stabbing him with the sword? My great-grandmother left without a word while my great-grandfather used his last strength to make his death look like a suicide so that my great-grandmother wouldn’t be involved in his death.”
At this point, he touched her cheek gently.
His cold fingers made her tremble slightly, and the hair on her body instantly stood up. For some reason, she was enveloped by unease.
“Look, what difference does it make how much you love someone? One could still go on with their life after killing someone, but the other tried their best to hide how they died as he could not let the public learn about the truth.” He paused as his fingertips gently glided across her lips. “So the Reed family also calls it Room of Lies. Because this room is full of lies, and the only truth was the loss of a life.”
His fingers were so cold that even her lips seemed to freeze with them.
Grace wanted to open her mouth to say something. The uneasiness in her chest seemed to want to burst out!
His thin lips opened and closed as his breath smelled like orchids. His cold voice enveloped her like the tenderest whisper, and it kept pouring into her ears, stinging her eardrums.
‘Don’t! Don’t go on!’
She shouted in her heart, but she could hear him say, “Grace, you betrayed me so easily. How can I believe that you would sacrifice your own life and the lives of our children for me? Are you also trying to lie to me in this Room of Lies?”
She stared blankly at him, her uneasy presentiment coming true.
‘He thinks what I said is a lie. Has he stopped believing whatever I say?’
Grace knew that only by figuring out the problem with his memory could he truly believe her and maybe solve their problems.
He thought she fell into the sea to escape him! Therefore, he would not believe she loved him no matter what she said.
Furthermore, the fact she drugged him and forced her way onto the freeway with the car for Mrs. Watts was the truth.
In the next few days, Grace refused to leave the old mansion. Wherever Jason went, she would go with him. When Jason went to bed at night, she would squeeze into his bed, claiming that they were husband and wife, so of course, they were going to sleep together.
Even if she had to suffer his silent treatment, she bit the bullet and clung to him like taffy.
Maybe there was no limit to human potential, just like how she never thought she would be so shameless.
For the two children who were still in Reed Residence, Grace would go on video calls with them as much as possible. She felt guilty for leaving them for so many days.
Mick was doing alright, but Jasper had always been with her since she was born. When she had to go on business trips in the past, she would only ask her mentor and his wife to take care of Jasper for one or two days at most.
It was the fourth day now. During the video call, Jasper anxiously asked her now and then when she would be back.
“I’ll be back soon, and Daddy will be back too. He and I will take you, Mason, William, Sis Veronica, and Brother Nelson to the amusement park, okay?” said Grace.
Her words immediately caught Jasper Reed’s attention. When she heard that many of them would be going to the amusement park together, she was instantly delighted and nodded her small head as she said yes.
Mick Reed looked at Grace through the screen and asked, “Is Mommy coming home ‘with’ Daddy?”
The little one emphasized the word ‘with’.
Grace froze and smiled. “We will! Don’t worry, Mick! Because I… love Daddy the most, and Daddy loves me the most!”
That had never changed.
In the old mansion’s study, Jason went through the documents Terrence handed as he gave him some orders.
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