Chapter 863 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

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Even though he repeatedly told himself that he had no expectations for their relationship, he still wanted her so badly!

“Lina, do you not take me as a man?” Hadwin Stephenson suddenly sat up, opened his eyes, and glared at the woman sleeping beside him.

He could see her sleeping position as well. The pregnancy pillow was here, but her arms and legs touched him from over the pillow.

Lina instantly opened her eyes and sat up when she heard Hadwin Stephenson’s roar. “You… You’re not asleep?”

“You would’ve woken me up even if I had fallen asleep!” Hadwin Stephenson snapped. She had stirred up the desire in his body, but as the person responsible, she was looking at him innocently.

The moon shone through the window on her palm-sized face, round eyes, little nose, and red lips. The swelling of her cheeks had subsided a little now, but they were still a little swollen, which made her face look puffed up like a hamster. She was indescribably cute.

‘She’s just trying to seduce me!’

“I… I didn’t know I’d wake you. I just couldn’t sleep and wanted to come over. Uh… I thought maybe I could fall asleep next to you because we’re familiar with each other,” Lina explained hastily.

“Familiar?” He suddenly snorted coldly. “So if you can’t sleep and another man you’re familiar with is in the room next to yours, you’re going to lie in that man’s bed too?”

She blinked, and a look of hurt appeared on her face. “You’re the only man I’m familiar enough to share a bed with!”

What she said left him dumbfounded.

“If you don’t like it, then… I’ll go back to the guest room,” said Lina as she pitifully picked up her pregnancy pillow and prepared to get out of bed to leave.

His heart ached again at the sight of the way she looked.

“Just this once. There’s no next time!” he said in a cold voice.

She immediately put back the pregnancy pillow and lay on the bed, pulling some more of the blanket that was over his body over her. She did everything almost in one breath.

Hadwin Stephenson was a little speechless at this. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll do something to you?”

“Uh… As much as I’d love for you to do something to me, I’m pregnant. While it’s okay to do it in the second trimester, I think I should exercise restraint for the safety of the baby,” she replied solemnly.

“Alright, sleep!” Hadwin Stephenson snapped as he lay back down and closed his eyes.

However, her scent was still at the tip of his nose, making it difficult for him to sleep.

Moments later, her voice quietly rang in his ears. “Hadwin, how about I stay here with you until after your birthday?

The swelling on my face should be gone by then, and I can wait here for you to come back after your birthday party to have cake with you.”

“..” He did not answer.

However, Lina was delighted. He did not reject her, which meant he agreed to it.

Hadwin Stephenson’s birthday party could be said to be one of the most popular events in J City, especially since it was said that most of J City’s single socialites had been invited to the party.

Therefore, someone even joked that it was not a birthday party but a wife selection party.

Of course, the rich families were still a little concerned about Emily Flowers’s identity as a homewrecker. After all, it was nothing glorious, but Stephenson Group was now on a roll. Even if Emily Flowers’s identity was nothing glorious, Hadwin Stephenson was the patriarch of the Stephenson family, after all.

Therefore, the whole party was bustling. Emily Flowers dressed up luxuriously. She even wore the Stephenson family’s heirloom jade as if to tell others that she was the real owner of the Stephenson family!

Hadwin Stephenson listened idly as his mother introduced him to one socialite after another.

These women were not bad-looking, plus they had put in the effort to dress up, so one could consider them beautiful. Besides, their families were popular in J City.

If it were before he met Lina, he would be so intent on getting to the top that he would not care what kind of woman he married but her family background.

However, looking at these women now, he remembered Lina’s face.

“What’s the matter? Not interested in any of these women?” Emily Flowers asked when it was just the two of them.

“Mom, I’ll decide what kind of woman I want to marry, and I’ll look for her myself,” said Hadwin Stephenson, hinting at his mother not to arrange such blind dates for him again.

“I like the Tang family’s heiress. The Tang family is also influential in J City. Their ancestors left them a lot of properties and they have investments overseas. Miss Keller is knowledgeable and gentle. I like her very much,”

Emily Flowers said pointedly.

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“If you like her, you can have her as your goddaughter,” said Hadwin Stephenson. He understood what his mother meant, but he had no feelings for Miss Keller.

Emily Flowers’s expression changed before she smiled and handed her son a glass of wine. “If you don’t like her, then I won’t force it. Alright, I wish you a happy birthday!”

Hadwin Stephenson took the glass and gently clinked it with the glass in his mother’s hand before downing the wine in it.

Emily Flowers smiled meaningfully as she watched her son finish the glass of wine.

‘I’ll have things go my way no matter what. As for Lina, so what if my son has feelings for her?

‘A woman like that doesn’t deserve the Stephenson family!

‘Once my son and the Tang family’s heiress get together, Lina will not have any chance!’

As the party continued, Emily Flowers smiled as she watched her son walk toward the lounge on the second floor with a faint blush on his cheek.

Everything was going exactly as she wanted, Miss Keller was already wailing there. After tonight, the Stephenson family and the Tang family’s marriage would be decided, Lind would have nothing to do with them anymore!

Emily Flowers counted the time in her mind while drinking wine and exchanging pleasantries with the guests.

However, there was suddenly a loud noise on the second floor, followed by dead silence.

The quests looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what was going on.

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