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.”

flash in his eyes, but he did not say anything in

dinner, Grace took that shower she’d been waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and

only partially succeeded.

she learned? That there were many people above the law. And being

couldn’t lose.

today was proof of that.

She shuddered.

that man on the second floor

Greg have abused and drowned her? And

Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d stood by

to press charges, they would be accomplices.

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

seeking justice was

would never come for a person like

okay. You’re

a

again, but deep down, she

wasn’t true.

to bite back

remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting

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

her to mother him because he’d sensed that was what

sat back down at the

she worked in the dim light of the kitchen

clenched into fists.

some nameless tune.

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 had befallen her in the short

her clothes,

about her

very notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes that cost more than Grace would make

year.

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