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.”

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

hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and fears out of her and right down the drain.

partially succeeded.

law school, she’d studied and strove to always protect the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the

couldn’t lose.

today was proof

She shuddered.

man on the second floor hadn’t

abused and drowned her? And

of Maria and Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d

were to press charges, they would

didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone

knew seeking justice was

for a person like her.

You’re okay.

a new

again,

wasn’t true.

to bite back the words he wanted to say.

hand, he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting him. Which was

from the other night. If that was

sensed

at the

of the kitchen lamp to sew

hands clenched into fists.

some

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

she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch, and…

and elegant way about

women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable.

year.

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