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.”
eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied
she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and fears out of her and right down the
only partially
the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the law. And being innocent didn’t mean you
couldn’t lose.
today was proof
She shuddered.
man on the second floor hadn’t intervened?
bastard Greg have abused and drowned her? And
Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d stood by
were to press charges, they would be
have enough money to buy
knew seeking justice was pointless.
never come for a
You’re okay.
is a
again, but deep down, she knew it
wasn’t true.
found it hard to bite back the words he wanted
silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting
physical sickness from the other night. If that was the case, well, f*ck that. He’d been in pain, yeah. But it
because he’d sensed that was what she needed to
back down at the kitchen table.
of
clenched into
some nameless tune.
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
sewing her clothes,
elegant way about her was unusually
notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes that cost more than Grace would make
year.
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