Try Begging - Chapter 131.1
“What do you think about going to Joe?”
“…What?”
It was a suggestion to go to her brother, who had long turned his back on the revolutionary army. It was no different from going back to Winston, as that man was monitoring her brother. Nancy would have no clue, so it wasn’t a suggestion to actually return to Winston.
Still, there was a truly shocking intention behind it.
“Are you telling me to leave my comrades forever?”
“I can’t help it. It’s a decision from above.”
“I told you not to report to the executives.”
“Grace. I have a duty to report everything, but the executives don’t know. I only informed Jimmy was informed.”
Grace’s heart sank upon realizing Jimmy knew she was carrying Winston’s child. And then, with a sudden realization, her heart completely plummeted.
“…So, Jimmy told me to leave.”
Jimmy.
Jimmy, who had been like family all her life. And Jimmy, who was someday supposed to become her real family…
“It was a tough decision for Jimmy, too. The executives think you’re dead, so returning alive will complicate things for you as well.”
“Why? Why on earth?”
“How would I know? Jimmy said it was for your best, especially since you’re carrying a royalist’s child.”
She couldn’t understand why Jimmy would say that. All she heard was that she had lost the right to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her comrades because she was carrying the enemy’s child.
“…For me? By abandoning me with just this small amount of money?”
Grace argued, pulling out the bundle of bills from her pocket.
“I’ve lived my life for the cause. The revolutionary army is my family. How could Jimmy know this and still…”
“Whoo… Please calm down, Grace. Jimmy had no choice…”
Grace cut off Nancy’s words to ask.
“What did Jimmy say when he found out I was captured?”
“How would I know? I wasn’t in my right mind, preparing for Fred’s funeral.”
“…What? Fred died?”
“My God, you didn’t know?”
Grace was stunned, having heard nothing from that man except that Fred had been released. Nancy struggled to hold back tears while explaining what had happened to Fred.
“Do you know our family is still struggling with the pain? My younger brother was not only brutally tortured but died in a horrific state that I can’t bear to see…”
Lost for words and could only listen, Grace snapped to her senses as Nancy bit her lip and added more words.
“Still, I don’t understand how you’re still alive.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“You escaped without a scratch.”
“…What?”
Could they think she was a double agent sent by Winston? Perhaps that was why they were abandoning her.
Whether she was a double agent or not, if Jimmy and Nancy speculated that Winston had deliberately set a trap and released her, they couldn’t be blamed for thinking so. Nevertheless, Grace instinctively hid this fact. She feared that they might want to permanently eliminate her, not just abandon her.
“I’m not Winston’s spy!”
Her protest only twisted Nancy’s expression further. She saw her face showing personal resentment and holding back her outrage.
Only then did Grace realize…
“…Wait, do you really think I handed Fred over to Winston?”
“Two out of three placed in Halewood died. Only you survived and in perfect condition… no, more than perfect. To an outsider, you’d look like a wealthy noble’s wife.”
The accusatory eyes scanned her from head to toe. Her healthy complexion, Winston’s expensive wool coat, and shoes with the emblem of a renowned boutique in gold could hardly belong to someone who had been treated less than human in a torture chamber.
So, that was why the b*stard dressed her in expensive clothes.
“Does this look ‘perfect’ to you?”
Grace pointed at her stomach with trembling hands, but Nancy’s gaze only grew colder.
“It’s impressive that you managed to seduce Winston, who was known for being immune to seduction. I don’t want to imagine what you did to survive. I just feel sorry for my younger brother, who genuinely liked you.”
Were they blaming her for what she did to survive?
Feeling guilty for one’s actions was one thing, but being condemned by others was different. Especially Nancy, Fred’s sister, had no right to blame her.
The world seemed to blur.
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