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.”

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

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

partially

and yet… what had she

couldn’t lose.

happened today was proof of that.

She shuddered.

the second floor hadn’t intervened? What

have abused and

and Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d

were to press charges, they

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

seeking justice was pointless.

would never come for a person

okay. You’re okay.

a new day.

again, but deep down, she

wasn’t true.

to bite back the

she remained silent. His

of his physical sickness from the other night. If that

mother him because he’d sensed that was what

at the kitchen table.

wore a fluffy bathrobe over her pajamas and she worked in the dim light of

hands clenched into fists.

hummed some

shoulders. 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 had befallen her in the short time. he’d known her, it was obvious the hardships in her life

she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch,

quiet and elegant way about her

moved in, he seldom saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes that cost more than

year.

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