Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
She even looked up at him expectantly as she asked, “Can I?”
Hadwin Stephenson was speechless. She was already acting on the spot without prior approval. What else could he say? “Let her stay with me for a few days. I’ll take good care of her.”
Hadwin Stephenson said to Mr. Sweeney and Mrs. Sweeney.
“We’re sorry to bother you!” said Mr. Sweeney and Mrs. Sweeney as they got in the Stephenson family’s car.
The car slowly drove toward the hotel they were staying, while Lina got in Hadwin Stephenson’s car.
“I thought you’d go back to the hotel with your parents since the swelling has gone down,” he said.
She said cheekily, “I was hoping we could spend more time together! We’ve been apart for five years. Although I
love you and you still love me, all those misunderstandings have taken a toll on our relationship. Don’t you think we need to spend more time together?”
Hadwin Stephenson realized that he did not hate spending more time with her. He was even happy about it.
Lina showed up in Hadwin Stephenson’s room again that night, holding her pregnancy pillow.
He rubbed his temples as he looked at her. “Are you going to come to my room from today onward to bond with me?”
“If you think it’s doable, that’d be best,” she said.
He was speechless as he drew close to her and pushed her up against a nearby cabinet. “Lina, am I not a man to you?”
Did she know how much restraint he needed to fight his desire when she lay by his side at night, with her arms grabbing him from time to time and her thigh resting on his lap across the pregnancy pillow?
“I’ve never thought of you as a woman!” she answered immediately.
He was between laughter and tears. “You sure do trust me.”
She said matter-of-factly, “Who else am I going to trust if not you? You didn’t even have your way with me after what happened to you yesterday!”
What she said left Hadwin Stephenson speechless for a moment.
He looked at her blankly. He recalled what had happened the night before because of what she just said. Her lips were so his blood seemed to be boiling.
“What’s come over you? You look a little…” Before she could finish, he suddenly flung his arms around her.
She froze. “Hadwin?”
“Let me hold you like this for a while,” he murmured as he tried to hold her in his arms for an eternity.
She stiffened slightly as if remembering the night before. ‘He didn’t get drugged today, but he did drink during dinner. He’s not gonna…
“Hadwin, I… I’m still pregnant. I… I can’t do that sort of thing, but if you really have needs, I can fulfill you another way…”
“Is that all you think about?” Though he said so, his arms closed a little closer around her. However, he was careful not to press against her belly. “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you.”
More than anyone else, he wanted her and the baby to be okay!
“And… what happened yesterday won’t happen again.”
“What happened yesterday? Did you really… take something you shouldn’t have taken?” she asked in a mutter.
He stiffened. “Do you really want to know?”
The inquiry seemed to carry an inestimable weight.
Lina froze and then hummed a reply. ‘Yes, I want to know everything about you-good and bad!’
She wanted to know what had happened to him yesterday!
Hadwin Stephenson muttered, “I drank the wrong glass of wine. It was spiked, and the person who handed me the wine was my mother.”
Lina was stunned. ‘His mother drugged him?’
That same woman who looked poised but cold almost caused her unborn child to miscarry by beating her up. Lina did not have a good impression of Emily Flowers.
However, she never expected her to drug her own son!
She could almost guess why. After all, news had reported that Emily Flowers invited many socialites in tMason Swansonty to attend his birthday party.
Some even said it was a blind date party.
Lina bit her lip and said, “She… She’s against us being together, isn’t she? If she continues to refuse, then you…”
Hadwin Stephenson said, “I’m no longer her pawn. It’s up to me to decide what to do. My mother won’t be bothering you again for years, and I won’t let her harm our child.
They’ll be born safely.”
She let out a sigh of relief. “No matter what happens, even if your mother objects, I’ll still pester you. You said it yourself. You want me to keep pestering you and not give up!”
He could not help chuckling. The woman sometimes depressed him, but she never failed to cheer him up when he was in a bad mood.
forgive you if you fail to keep your word!” His voice captured her like a dense web.
“Nelson Corbyn, your mother is an ex-convict. How dare you reject me when I don’t even look down on you for that?” The girl’s voice was haughty and angry.
It was as if being rejected was a great shame.
Grace, who was on her way to the principal’s office, could not help but stop when she heard the voice. It was because she heard the words ‘Nelson Corbyn’.
“Just because you like me doesn’t mean I should like you back. Besides, my mother was wronged. The law has already cleared her name,” Nelson Corbyn said calmly.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.