Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
He knew he was despicable to offer her his deepest longing at such a time.
“Marry… you?” Kyla almost suspected that she misheard.
She and Martin Weiss had already been through so much. She only wished to never meet him again, but now the man asked her to marry him.
“Yes, marry me and become the rightful Mrs. Weiss. This way, everyone will know that Nelson is the little young master of the Weiss family. No one will ever discriminate against him again or even dare to beat him up like today!”
Kyla suddenly laughed. Her laughter grew louder and louder until she began to choke.
She took a while to stop choking. The corners of her eyes were still wet with tears. “Martin Weiss, you want me to marry you?” Her voice was sarcastic like she had just heard the best joke.
Martin Weiss’s face darkened. “Yes, I want you to marry me.”
“How could you… say that so easily?” The words were almost squeezed through her teeth.
He said what she used to long for the most under such circumstances! How could he? How dared he?
“I know it was all my fault! Kyla, not a day went by in the past five years that I don’t regret it! I… I’m not asking you to fall in love with me again someday, but… let me take care of you and our son, okay? I want to give you a better life. I don’t want anyone to bully you!”
Kyla said coldly, “No thanks, Mr. Weiss! If you’re asking me to stay to say this, I can tell you this right now. Martin Weiss, I won’t marry you!”
With that, she turned around to leave.
He grabbed her wrist again. “Do you want Nelson to keep on being discriminated against and bullied like this?”
Kyla quivered. What he said seemed to strike her at her weak spot, causing a crack in her heavily armed armor.
Nelson was more important to her than her life!
Seeing that she was silent, Martin Weiss said, “Let me send you home first.”
“No thanks. I can go home myself!” she said, trying to break free from his fingers.
However, Martin Weiss shoved Kyla into the passenger seat anyway. He drove toward her store.
The car was quiet as Kyla looked at the road ahead. Her calm face was expressionless, but her heart was in a flurry.
What he just said kept playing back like a recording.
The car stopped at the store’s entrance. Kyla unbuckled the seat belt to get down, but Martin Weiss suddenly leaned over, grabbed her, and said, “I meant what I said today. Think about it. I’ll wait for your reply.”
Kyla pressed her lips together and said nothing. She only pulled her hand out, opened the car door, and got out.
Once her figure disappeared from his sight, Martin Weiss looked down at his hands with a wry smile.
‘How I wish…. I can hold her and keep her from leaving. I want her to stay by my side and protect her from everything.‘
It turned out one would need a lifetime to fix a mistake one made!
He knew how much she wanted nothing to do with him, but he was now using the matter of other kids bullying Nelson to force her back to him.
‘I want her so badly! I want everything about her!‘
“Kyla, come back to me. This time, I’ll take good care of you! I won’t let any harm come to you…” There was a murmur in the silent car.
Mrs. Corbyn and Nelson were waiting for her when Kyla reached home. Mrs. Corbyn was relieved to see her return.
“He… didn’t do anything to you, did he?” Mrs. Corbyn asked anxiously.
Kyla shook her head. “No, we only chatted a little.”
She looked at the time and said to her son, “Alright. Nelson, you haven’t done your homework, have you? Why don’t you go to bed? I’ll go to school tomorrow and explain what happened to the teacher. You can do it tomorrow…”
Before she could finish, Nelson Corbyn said, “I’ll go work on my homework!” With that said, he opened his bag to take out his workbook and pencil case. He then said to Kyla, “Mommy, I… Ì won’t get bullied anymore. You don’t have to worry about me. I’m a man. It doesn’t hurt!”
Kyla’s eyes watered as she watched her son do his homework as he bent over the small table. His red and swollen face was so obvious under the lights.
‘It doesn’t hurt? How could it not hurt?‘
Besides, she learned from her mother at the police station that the kids had fought with Nelson. Nelson was the only one being beaten. He only protected the hearing aid in his ear so that it would not break again.
At night, Kyla lay in bed, tossing and turning.
Martin Weiss’s voice rang in her ears again and again.
‘Marry me… Marry me… Marry me…
It repeated again and again like a spell.
‘Stop thinking about it!‘ Kyla told herself.
‘Under no circumstances will I marry Martin Weiss! But…‘ Her eyes fell on Nelson lying beside her.
She looked at his tender face. She had seen him injured many times in the past few days. No matter how hard she tried, she could not prevent Nelson from getting hurt!
Only Martin Weiss could stop it!
Kyla raised her hand to gently stroke her son’s cheek. “I’m sorry…” “she muttered. Her soft but pained voice drifted in the air…
Martin Weiss stood in front of an old apartment building as his eyes looked coldly at his surroundings.
The subordinate beside him said, “Mr. Weiss, this is it.”
With that said, they led the way while Martin Weiss followed them toward the apartment stairway. Finally, they came to the door of one of the apartment units.
Inside, several men in black suits surrounded a woman in revealing clothes. Her makeup was thick, looking just like those working in a ‘unique‘ industry. She did not have a welcoming smile on her face but a look of terror.
When the woman saw the man entering the room after the door opened, her eyes suddenly widened. Shock, fear, pain, bewilderment, and finally hatred flashed across her face.
“Martin Weiss!” The woman almost spat out the words through clenched teeth!
“Paisley Daniels, it’s been so long since we met.” Martin Weiss looked at the person in front of him with a cold expression.
“Hmph, I can sue you for breaking and entering by barging into my house like this!” said Paisley Daniels. As much as she loved this man previously, that was just as much as she hated him now!
If it were not for him, she would not have ended up like this!
“You can try! Let’s see if you can win the lawsuit,” Martin Weiss said coldly as he looked at her with thick disgust.
“You have many people coming in and out of your place every day.”
Paisley Daniels’s expression changed before she showed a mocking smile. “Yes, many people come and leave here every day. Some of them even paid me more when they found out I’m the ex–fiancee of Weiss Group’s chairman!
They asked me to serve them the same way I served you.”
However, to her disappointment, Martin Weiss did not feel angry after hearing what she said. The only thing that changed was that the disgust in his eyes had become more obvious.
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