My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

“Of course, I’ll stay with you. You’re not well, why would I leave?! I’ll lay right here beside you on the floor. Just say the word and I can get you anything you need.”

“This bed can hold two people. Come and lie beside me.” Even he was unaware of the longing look on his face.

Grace bit her lip and hesitated for a while before nodding. “All right.” She lifted up the quilt on the floor and lay down beside him.

She was astonished that she had agreed to sleep beside a man.

His scent enveloped her and his body radiated heat.

Not like a fever, just a warm, healthy body.

“Are you sure I can’t take you to the hospital?” She didn’t think he had insurance, but she could go on a payment plan. The cost was irrelevant, the only thing that mattered was his well-being.

“I’ll be okay,” he assured her. “Just stay with me.”

She held his hand and shifted on her side so she could hold one arm over his body in a loose hug. It was a novel feeling to comfort this man, and for her, it brought into acute awareness how long she’d denied herself any comfort or any connection to another human being.

Sure, she had her friends, and she loved them.

But this… this involved trust, and connecting to someone new. After all that she’d been through, she was glad she hadn’t lost all of her humanity.

She switched off the light and then it was just the two of them, holding each other and quietly breathing.

“Sister, will you stay with me forever?” Jay asked softly

“Of course! In the future, when you get married and have a family, I’ll still keep you company.” Bonds could be forged that were stronger than blood. Hadn’t she learned that? While her own father and half-sister had forsaken her, Jason had shown that he would be there for her. And she would be there for him.

He felt assured by her

the death of his fiancee, Jason had never thought of getting

mean what you

“Yes,” she replied.

and then allowed himself to fall

his stomach must have lessened.

to let him sleep

he was

said. “It’s still early. Rest a little longer.” As Grace spoke, she hurried off to wash up and

of soup in the slow cooker and set out the medicine on the counter. “Try to eat something. And please don’t forget to

had given the instructions,

again, Jason was left alone in

buried his face in the spot where she had

still smell her, and feel the residual

woman continued to care for him and asked

breathed her scent again and his thoughts

***

It was an old model, and it wasn’t to his boss’s usual taste. However, Mr. Reed instructed him

he didn’t

in no time

the mobile phone, he sent a text message. Shortly, the

blinked his eyes in disbelief. He glanced at the sender of the text message

was an only

whom Mr. Reed

of the Reed Group conducted its quarterly financial meeting. When everybody was listening attentively to

old-model mobile phone and answer the call. He put the phone up to

will remember to eat,”

more surprised than Terrence, by the way, their boss sounded so

boss talking to?” William Sharf asked

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