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.”
flash in his eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied faintly, “Okay.”
for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those
only partially succeeded.
yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the law. And
couldn’t lose.
happened today was proof
She shuddered.
second floor hadn’t intervened? What
abused and drowned her? And
of Maria and Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d stood by
press charges,
she wasn’t a convicted felon. If their families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries…
justice was
never come for
okay. You’re
is a
over and over again, but deep down, she knew
wasn’t true.
it hard to bite back the words he wanted
remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting him. Which was just
night. If that was
allowed her to mother him because he’d sensed
back down at
light of the kitchen lamp to sew back together
clenched
hummed some
head lowered, and her long hair was hanging loosely over her 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
her clothes, stitch by stitch, and…
way about
notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes
year.
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