Chapter 19

Jason stared at Grace’s sorry figure.

She was just a target in the game, but why… why did he feel uncomfortable when he saw her being treated like this?

It was because… even if she was a target in their twisted games, he could not allow others to touch her. Even if he wanted to

torture her, he was the only one who could do it. No one, no one else was allowed.

This is what he told himself.

After a while, he turned around and left.

Sean who was standing not far away looked at Grace’s back and a thoughtful look flashed across his eyes.

Lily, who was next to him, gnashed her teeth in anger. “Grace is really lucky. Greg, that idiot, can’t he be less ostentatious? He just had to disturb Jay!”

Sean shrugged, but his gaze remained on Grace.

Terrence greeted Manager Wang.

Terrence stared at Greg as if he was looking at a dead man.

They were all the same, these wealthy young men. Too much

money, too little control. Always someone to clean up their

messes. But Gregory, he had gone too far today. And the foolish man was about to pay the price for provoking someone under Mr. Reed’s protection.

It was a coincidence that Mr. ReedMr. Reed happened to be al the club today, and had seen what had just happened.

What might have befallen the young woman had they not been here?

What would befall Gregory if he’d successfully followed through with his assault on her? Terrence had heard the commotion- the ‘disturbance’ as his boss had called it-and he’d seen the Stevens heir and several other people watching on while Miss Cummins was nearly drowned in a decorative pond.

the

a master at his role and as the direct liaison to Reed Group’s President. Terrence

Mr.

his young boss would expect.

side, “Whatever he did just

immediately heeded the order. Two strong and powerful guards dragged Greg directly to the side of

and dunked him into the water over and over again, just like Greg had been doing to Grace before!

as well as Sean and Lily, they were all a little

would have thought that things would develop like

easy on him. Manager Wang had no intention of pleading

who the real muscle was

shareholders of this club. At present, merely the son of a shareholder had been sacrificed. Manager Wang knew the other shareholders would want

his gaze fell on Sean

and said, “I’m sorry for letting Mr.

to Grace. “Mr. Reed said that he won’t have time

waiting

the Sanitation Service

saw the state of Grace’s torn clothes, and her teasing

deep breath and slowly said, “The documents… never mind, just now… I accidentally fell into a small

day, you need to go home and change out of your

Grace nodded.

and phone from her locker. “Hey, I’m not sure this is even the right time, but Chase asked me about you. He’s interested. And he’s a nice guy,

be in a relationship now. Why don’t you help me with Chase and instead of encouraging him, why don’t you tell him not to put his hopes in me anymore?

chance on him, I will tell

was too

through. You don’t really want to be alone until

a handsome face appeared in Grace’s mind.

have Jay. Well, not in the romantic sense. But they’d be family. And that would be

you, Claire,” Grace said before starting her long

walk home.

the evening, when Grace returned to her apartment, Jay

started in a moment. I just need

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