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.”

his eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied faintly, “Okay.”

she tried to channel all of those terrible

only partially succeeded.

and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people

couldn’t lose.

happened today was proof of

She shuddered.

that man on the second floor hadn’t intervened? What

have abused and drowned her? And

‘classmates’ who’d stood by and

to press charges, they would be accomplices.

their families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her or the pain they’d caused her.

seeking justice

never come for a person like her.

You’re okay.

a

it over and over again,

wasn’t true.

it hard to bite back the words he wanted

knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting him.

that

him because he’d sensed that was what she needed

sat back down at

light of the kitchen lamp to sew back

clenched

hummed some

sun, her skin was not fair at all. Even though she had a comely appearance, she still looked weathered, and given all that had

her clothes, stitch

about her was

this. The very notion was laughable. The women he knew wore

year.

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