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.
waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible
partially
yet… what had she
couldn’t lose.
today was proof
She shuddered.
the second
that bastard Greg have abused and drowned her? And
two ‘classmates’ who’d stood by and watched
to press charges, they
buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her or
knew seeking justice was
never come for a
okay. You’re
is a new
said it over and over again, but
wasn’t true.
back
hand, he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting him. Which was just ridiculous.
because of his physical sickness from the other night. If that
because he’d sensed
sat back down at
her pajamas and she worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew
hands clenched into
some nameless
skin was not fair at all. Even though she had a comely appearance, she still
her clothes, stitch by stitch,
about her was unusually
very notion was laughable. The women he
year.
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