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

to channel

partially

innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That

couldn’t lose.

happened today was proof

She shuddered.

the second floor hadn’t intervened? What then?

bastard Greg have abused and drowned

‘classmates’ who’d stood

charges, they

to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her

seeking justice was

come for a person

You’re

is a

over again, but deep down, she knew

wasn’t true.

to bite back the words he

silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent

the other night. If that

he’d sensed that was what

down at

pajamas and she worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew back together the uniform shirt that Gregory had

hands clenched into

some

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

clothes, stitch by stitch, and…

about

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

year.

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