Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
“It has nothing to do with him. I just never looked for you,” Linal Sweeney said. Too many things had happened since she came back. How could she have time to think of anything else?
Besides, she only regarded it as a foreign encounter and their night as an accident. She planned to keep this secret for the rest of her life. She did not even tell her parents and Grace.
He looked angrier than ever. He glared at her fiercely while he pressed his thin lips together, and at last, all he said was, “You have a way of pissing people off.”
He was good at controlling his emotions since he was little. As he was born out of wedlock, he had always known to endure his joys
However, she was the only one who seemed to particularly affect his emotions. He seemed to be able to completely release his emotions in front of her and did not need to have any burden.
The few days they spent together were both sweet and painful for him. He would often think of them in his spare time over the three years.
The happier those days were, the more painful it was when she left without saying goodbye.
There was a knock on the door. Hadwin Stephenson gathered himself. “Come in.”
Someone pushed through the door and came in. It was the guard outside, and behind him were Jason and Grace.
Lina Sweeney’s eyes lit up when she saw her best friend. “Grace.” She did not expect her best friend to come here.
Meanwhile, Grace immediately ran to Lina Sweeney, nervously saying, “How are you feeling? What happened? Are you all right?”
“I’m all right. I’m fine!” Lina Sweeney hurriedly said.
Grace was relieved. “Why did, uh, this man bring you here? Do you know him?” She could not help asking.
Lina Sweeney smiled awkwardly. “That’s… a long story.” Then, as if she thought of something, she suddenly said, “By the way, did you tell my parents about me being taken away?”
“Not yet, but… I called the police,” Grace said.
“I’m screwed. The police will probably call my parents,” Lina Sweeney wailed and was in a hurry to leave.
She would probably have to deal with her parents’ crying and screaming if she went back.
However, a hand was in her way. “Did I say you can leave?”
Lina Sweeney was shocked while Grace lunged forward, protectively shielding her best friend behind her.”You have no right to detain anyone, and I’ve called the police. If you don’t want any trouble, you’d better let Lina go.”
“You’re Grace.” What Hadwin Stephenson said was not a question, but an affirmation. After he happened to see Linal
Sweeney in the street that day, he began to scout out everything about Lina Sweeney.
Of course, among the materials he found was this Grace.
She was Lina Sweeney’s best friend. It was also because Lina Sweeney had to help Grace with her lawsuit that Lina Sweeney suddenly took the earliest flight back home from abroad. She went to great lengths to help Grace find lawyers and all kinds of evidence.
In other words, it was also because of Grace that Lina Sweeney left him so quickly.
Hadwin Stephenson’s heart was strangely uncomfortable when he thought of this.
If Grace was not a woman, Hadwin Stephenson might have treated her as a rival.
“Yes, I am,” Grace said, raising her chin.
“You have no right to meddle in the affairs between Lina Sweeney and me. You’d better not overrate yourself in some matters. I show no mercy to women,” Hadwin Stephenson said coldly.
However, the more anxious she was, the more Hadwin Stephenson found the scene before him irritating.
Just then, Jason finally lazily said, “I don’t care what happens between you and Lina Sweeney, but you can’t touch Grace.”
Hadwin Stephenson turned to Jason with a slightly surprised look in his eyes. “I didn’t expect Young Master Reed to visit me so late at night.”
What surprised him was the relationship between Jason and Grace. He had checked Grace and found out about Grace’s case. It was Grace who ran over and killed Jason’s fiancée, Jennifer Atkinson. However, it was now clear to everyone that Grace and Jason had an unusual relationship.
“I’m taking Lina Sweeney with me tonight,” Jason said.
Hadwin Stephenson frowned and sneered. “Didn’t you just say that you don’t care about what happens between Lina Sweeney and me?”
“I won’t mind after tonight, but right now, I’m taking her with me,”
Jason said.
The two men looked at each other, and there seemed to be some tension in the air. It made the people watching breathless.
Grace and Lina Sweeney could not help but stare at each other.
“If I disagree, are you going to take her by force?” Hadwin
“I do have this in mind,” Jason replied with an air of confidence as if taking Lina Sweeney away from his turf was nothing difficult.
Hadwin Stephenson’s eyes gradually darkened. Although it was only a short time since he took over the Stephenson family, he was well aware of Jason’s social status in Emerald City.
He turned around to look at Lina Sweeney and asked, “Do you want to leave?”
Lina Sweeney was stunned. She stared at the man she had not seen for more than three years and hesitated for a moment before saying, “I want to leave.”
Hadwin Stephenson pursed his thin lips. “You are as heartless as ever.”
She tried to argue, but the look in his eyes made her feel like something was stuck in her throat. The pain in her heart also seemed to come back.
Jason then left Hadwin Stephenson’s house with Grace and Linal Sweeney. Hadwin Stephenson told the subordinate who had brought them in, “Get out.”
“Yes,” he responded.
Hadwin Stephenson then took out a crumpled yellow piece of paper from his chest pocket.
Written on it were the words, ‘I’m sorry. I have to leave first’.
It was the piece of paper she had left back then. He had been carrying it with him all these years.
Several times, in anger, he crumpled up the paper and threw it into the trash can. However, he would go through the trash can and retrieve it.
This piece of paper was like a thorn in his heart. He could not pull it out and was reluctant to do so.
It was the only thing she had left for him. If he did not have that, then he would not have anything of hers.
However, now… Now, he had found her!
“Lina… Lina Sweeney…” He muttered her name over and over, and his thin lips kissed the paper in his hand. He looked so attached to it.
Lina Sweeney followed Grace into Jason’s car and said to them,
Lina Sweeney hastened to tell him her address. Grace, still somewhat worried, asked, “That Hadwin Stephenson didn’t do anything to you, did he?”
“He just made me sit in a chair and stare at him for three hours,” Lina Sweeney said. “I wanted to call you, but he took my phone so
I don’t…”
Speaking of her phone, she suddenly remembered that her phone was still in Hadwin Stephenson’s hand! She had some work information on her phone.
Lina Sweeney began to stress at the thought of this. Should she approach Hadwin Stephenson to get her phone back or just consider it lost? That seemed to be the question.
“What’s the matter?” Grace asked.
“Nothing.” Lina Sweeney shook her head and looked at Jason who was driving at the front. She was amazed that she could ride in Jason’s car.
She knew Jason would come to her rescue because of Grace. “Sorry I made you worry.” She looked at her friend with a guilty face.
“What matters is you’re all right,” Grace said.
As the car pulled up to the gate of Lina Sweeney’s neighborhood, Lina Sweeney got off the car. Grace took the initiative to get back. into the pa**enger seat, looking at Jason as she said, “Thank you