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.”

say anything in

she tried to channel all

only partially succeeded.

yet… what had she

couldn’t lose.

was proof of

She shuddered.

man on the second floor hadn’t intervened?

bastard Greg have abused

‘classmates’ who’d stood by and watched the assault…

charges,

to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her or the pain

knew seeking justice was pointless.

would never come for a person like

okay. You’re

a

and over again, but deep down, she knew

wasn’t true.

found it hard to bite back the words he wanted

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

she was holding back because of his physical sickness from the other night. If that was the case, well, f*ck that.

he’d sensed

back down at the

she worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew back together the uniform

clenched into

some nameless tune.

Her hair seemed to lack some shine due to malnutrition. After three 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 still looked weathered, and given all that

moment, she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch,

elegant way about her was

was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes

year.

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