My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Grace looked at the back of her right hand, at the spot where Maria had stepped on today.

“Today, when I was working, I accidentally hit it. It’s nothing,” she said casually, not wanting him to worry.

“Is that so?” Jason stared fixedly at Grace. “Sister, if someone bullies you, just tell me and I will stand up for you.”

He would make those people pay the price. In the future, no one would dare bully her.

For a moment, her heart pounded quickly. It was as if he knew everything. Was he …testing her? She didn’t want to lie. Not to him. But she didn’t want him to worry either.

Especially when he couldn’t help her.

He was poor and broken down like her. And if he were to take on one of those privileged assholes, it’d only end badly for him.

And she wouldn’t let that happen.

“I can protect myself,” she said.

“What if you can’t?” he asked.

If that were the case, it would still be useless to tell him, but

Grace did not say that. She didn’t want to prolong this

conversation.

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“Don’t you want me to protect you?” He stared at her with his dark and deep eyes.

She bit her lip. “You already saved me once, remember? Now it’s my turn to try and protect you. And I’ll try my best not to let others bully us.”

a flash in his eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied

shower she’d been waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and fears out of

partially

protect the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That

couldn’t lose.

was proof of that.

She shuddered.

that man on the second floor hadn’t

that bastard Greg have abused and

Maria and Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d stood

charges, they would

convicted felon. If their families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries…

knew seeking justice was pointless.

for a person like her.

You’re okay.

is a

it over and over again, but deep down, she

wasn’t true.

it hard to bite back the words he wanted

remained silent. His ‘sister’

physical sickness from the other night. If that was

him because he’d sensed that was what she

down at the kitchen table.

of the kitchen lamp to sew back together the uniform shirt that Gregory

hands clenched

some nameless tune.

sun, her skin was not fair

she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch, and… she looked beautiful.

quiet and elegant way about her was unusually attractive.

this. The very notion was laughable. The women

year.

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