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.”

not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied

that shower she’d been waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel

partially succeeded.

innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the law. And being innocent

couldn’t lose.

was proof of that.

She shuddered.

man on the second floor

that bastard Greg have abused and

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

press charges, they would

families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her or the

seeking justice was pointless.

come for a person like her.

okay. You’re

a new day.

again, but deep down, she knew

wasn’t true.

hard to bite back the words he

the one hand, he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting

because of his physical sickness from the other night. If that was the case, well, f*ck that. He’d been in pain,

because he’d sensed that

sat back down at the kitchen

her pajamas and she worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp

hands clenched

some nameless

hard years of imprisonment and the recent exposure to the wind and sun, her skin was not fair at all. Even though she had a comely appearance, she

clothes,

about her was

circles he moved in, he seldom saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was

year.

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