Chapter 176 – The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)

Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie

Lina Sweeney’s jaw dropped.

A lot of things… What… What did she do?! Her head was now in a mess after getting drunk this time, unlike the previous time when she remembered almost everything that had happened.

“What… What did I do?” She swallowed the sudden flow of saliva in her throat and asked cautiously.

He blushed for no apparent reason.

Lina Sweeney gawked at the sight of his blushing cheeks. Suddenly, she found that he looked a little like the man she remembered.

“Did I… force myself on you again last night?” she blurted, and the next thing she knew, he was blushing even more. He even turned his head away uncomfortably.

Lina Sweeney had an impulse to beat herself to death. Oh God! No way. Did she make the same mistake twice?

Well… Just because she woke up with her clothes intact did not mean nothing had happened.

“About that… How did I ‘force’ myself on you?” Lina Sweeney, in the spirit of seeking truth from facts, sought proof with great care. She wanted to know if she had any chance of making it up.

“Enough!” Hadwin Stephenson groaned. He managed to calm down and keep his face from turning as red as before.

Just now when she asked him, he remembered that when he had brought her into the room, she suddenly opened her eyes and put her arms around his neck, kissing all over his face like a puppy who would lick people.

She was kissing and saying things like “You smell so good, so and so delicious…” This woman was the same as before!

Even now he could still feel her breath on his face.

“Anyway, from this day on, we’re dating and you have to fall in love with me,” he said.

What?!

Lina Sweeney gawked at him, seriously doubting whether she heard him right.

Hadwin Stephenson stopped talking. He turned on the recording app on his phone and played the recording of their conversation earlier. Lina Sweeney almost stumbled and fell to the ground when she heard herself saying yes.

She had to date Hadwin Stephenson and fall in love with him… Could it be that his revenge was to wait until she falls in love with him and get rid of her so that she could experience the feeling of being abandoned?

Lina Sweeney began to think imaginatively. After all, was this not often portrayed in TV dramas.

“Fine, let’s date,” Lina Sweeney said with resignation. Since she was going to be avenged on, she should at least be mentally prepared for it. “Then you… Uh, you can give me my phone back now.”

She had not forgotten that the main reason she followed him to the mansion was to get her phone back.

He stared at her for a moment, then threw the phone which was lying on the coffee table straight back to her.

“Ah!” she exclaimed, catching her phone just in time. The phone cost her 10,000 dollars. She had bought it through gritted teeth. If it hit the ground and its screen broke, it would cost more than 2,000 dollars to fix.

It hurt to think about it!

If it did break, she dared not ask him to pay!

Lina Sweeney turned on her phone and looked at the time. It was already past nine o’clock, and there were several missed calls on her phone. They were all from her parents, so she immediately called them back.

The call soon got through and there came her father’s angry shout. “Won’t you just give us a call if you’re not coming back for dinner? You’re not even answering your phone. What are

Lina Sweeney was sweating wildly. “I… I got tied up. I’ll be right back.”

With that, she hung up the phone quickly and looked at Hadwin Stephenson who had walked over to her. With her father’s loud voice, he probably heard what he just said to her.

“Well, if there’s nothing else, I got to go,” Lina Sweeney said rather lamely.

“I’ll take you home,” said Hadwin Stephenson.

Lina Sweeney hastened to say, “It’s all right. I’ll just take a taxi there. Besides… I have to pick up my car from yesterday’s parking lot.”

However, he grabbed her wrist and firmly said, “I’ll take you there. We’re in a relationship now.””

Lina Sweeney was rendered speechless. Fine, he could take her there if he wanted.

Lina Sweeney stopped arguing and obediently followed Hadwin Stephenson out the mansion.

“The keys to your car,” Hadwin Stephenson said to Lina Sweeney.

Lina Sweeney looked confused but obediently took the car keys from her bag and handed them to Hadwin Stephenson.

Hadwin Stephenson gave the car keys to the driver and told him to go to the place where Lina Sweeney parked yesterday to get

“Yes,” the driver replied and left.

Then, Hadwin Stephenson got into the driver’s seat and looked at

Lina Sweeney who stood dumbfounded beside the car. “Get in,”

he said coldly.

“Oh.” Lina Sweeney came back to her senses and hurriedly got into the car.

Hadwin Stephenson was focused on driving throughout the journey, ignoring Lina Sweeney.

Lina Sweeney had nothing to do, so she opened her phone, determined to set a new pa**word. She felt as if he had seen a lot of the contents on her phone.

Just when she was about to set a separate pa**word for the video folder on her phone, she suddenly found that a lot of the videos. on her phone seemed to be missing…

Lina Sweeney hurriedly checked the videos in the folder and was shocked to find that the missing videos were all videos of her idols!

As someone who was appearance-obsessed and would love this idol today and love another tomorrow, she was serious about each one of them!

She was a devoted fan when she was crazy about her idols and even spent money to go to their concerts and autograph sessions.

Sometimes, she would even attend celebrity fan meetings.

Of course, most of this happened before Grace’s incident. After

Grace’s incident, she became less starstruck. Besides going to work, she focused all her energy on helping her best friend to reverse her case.

Therefore, the videos of the concerts, signings, and fan meetings were equivalent to the wonderful memories of her youth.

However, these memories were now… gone?!

“What happened to my idols’ event videos?” Lina Sweeney exclaimed, turning her head to stare at Hadwin Stephenson who was driving.

“I’ve deleted them,” Hadwin Stephenson answered quite directly and readily.

“You… deleted them?” Lina Sweeney thought she was going to faint. If he had not returned her phone, she would have to accept were gone.

“Yes, I deleted them. Even if you took your phone to a professional repair shop, you still wouldn’t be able to restore them.” He continued.

She felt like coughing up blood. “Those are the memories of my youth!”

“Memories?” He sneered suddenly. Then, he turned the steering wheel and pulled the car over to the roadside. He unbuckled his seat belt and leaned his upper body toward her. “You know what I was thinking when I saw those videos?”

“What?” His handsome face closed in on her suddenly and made her heart beat much faster. The closer she looked at him, the more she felt that time had treated him well.

He was two years older than she was, but right now, his face looked like that of a fresh graduate.

Youthful and tender!

Bah! What was she thinking? Lina Sweeney hurriedly shook off the chaotic thoughts in her mind and stared at the man in front of her before saying, “You can’t just delete people’s videos!”

He breathed on her face. “I was thinking that I wasn’t the only one you said those things to. You seem to say a lot to other men too.”

“…”

“For a moment, she felt speechless because… Come to think of it, it seemed to be true. She seemed to express her love for those videos.

Was it not normal for fans to say that they like their idols, love their idols, and were willing to accompany them forever?

Of course, her lifetime with her idols usually lasted for only a few months to a year or so.

He raised his hand and gently played with her fringe. “All right.

From now on, you mustn’t say that to any other man. You can only say that to me.”

“I…” She tried to argue a little more, but his eyes fixed on her coldly.

“Don’t test my patience, Lina. I’ve already said that from this day on, we’re dating. Are you going to tell other men you like or love them? What are you going to do with me as your boyfriend?” He said, his voice so cold compared to his affectionate gestures.

For a moment Lina Sweeney stiffened.

She almost forgot that he was not the cutie he was back then. He was Hadwin Stephenson, the current patriarch of the Stephenson family!

Lina Sweeney went home, still a little confused. Did she and Hadwin Stephenson just get into a relationship? She had thought of many possible revenge plans that he might execute, but she did not think of this!

She did not have much experience in dating. She would just follow his pace. If that did not work, there were plenty of idol dramas for reference.

However, the problem was… he wanted her to fall in love with him.

Fall in love with him and then wait for him to dump her? Linal Sweeney scratched her head a little helplessly. If that really did not work, how about if she pretended to fall in love with him after a few months of dating and pretend to be heartbroken when he dumped her? Then maybe she could put an end to all this?

Lina Sweeney sighed heavily at the thought. Who would have thought that her first relationship would be started this way?

However, it was far better than how she had imagined him taking his revenge on her. She thought he would destroy her family or whatever.

That was why one should not take advantage of men. One should especially not run away after having their way with them. She was getting her comeuppance now!

Lina Sweeney rolled her eyes.

their home? She just sold herself to save their family!

“It’s not good having such a poor sense of time. I’ve made an appointment with the community’s Director Wang to get you on a blind date next week,” said Mrs. Sweeney.

Lina Sweeney almost spat out a mouthful of blood. She… She just started dating Hadwin Stephenson and her mom wanted her to go.

on a blind date?

The community’s Director Wang… was famous for being a matchmaker in the community, and she had made several successful matches. Therefore, her mother always hung out with Director Wang, hoping that she could find a good match for her.

“Mom… Can I find a boyfriend myself? I promise to find one you’ll like,” said Lina Sweeney. Of course, even though she said so, she did not intend to tell her parents about her relationship with Hadwin Stephenson.

After all, she knew very well that her affair with Hadwin Stephenson was only for a short time. It would not be long before she ‘broke up’ with Hadwin Stephenson.

Therefore, there was no need to tell her family about this. She wanted to save her parents from disappointment.

“You’ve said this many times. Do you realize you’re almost 28? If you don’t find a boyfriend now, are you going to wait until you’re 30 and become a leftover woman?” Mrs. Sweeney snapped.

Lina Sweeney pursed her lip. There were a lot of people who fell in love and got married in their 30s. Being a leftover woman did not mean she had to make do with just anybody. If she was to marry, she would marry someone she liked and was a feast to her eyes.

However, Hadwin Stephenson’s face unexpectedly and involuntarily emerged in her mind at the thought of this.

Bah! What was she thinking? Lina Sweeney quickly shook her head to shake the image of his face out of her mind. Then, she told her parents, “I’m tired!” and hurried into her room.

Once she entered the room, she received a text message on her phone. “This is Hadwin Stephenson. Please save my phone number for easy contact.”

Lina Sweeney glanced at the unfamiliar phone number and sighed helplessly as she obediently saved the phone number on her phone.

Now, she could only take one step at a time!

Grace continued looking for a job but was always turned down at the last stage because of her criminal record.

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