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.”
in his eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied
water, she tried to
partially
she learned?
couldn’t lose.
today was proof
She shuddered.
man on the second floor hadn’t intervened? What
Greg have abused and
two ‘classmates’ who’d
she were to press charges, they
to buy entire juries… if anyone actually
knew seeking justice was pointless.
for a person like
okay. You’re
is a new
and over again, but deep
wasn’t true.
back the words he wanted
she remained silent. His
night. If that was the case, well, f*ck that. He’d been in
him because he’d sensed that was what she
down at
worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew back
hands clenched into fists.
hummed some nameless tune.
of imprisonment and the recent exposure to the wind and sun, her skin was not fair at all. Even though she had a
clothes, stitch
and elegant way about her was unusually
sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes that cost
year.
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