Chapter 25

On the way back with Jason, Grace suddenly said, “Jay, do you know Sean?”

“The president of the Stevens Group?” he asked.

“You know him too then. Yes, he’s the guy who’s been in the news recently. Well, I suppose it’s more Page Six gossip than anything really newsworthy. He’s the groom in the marriage. between the Stevens family and Atkinson family, and… he’s also…” she paused and hesitated for a moment before saying, “my ex-boyfriend.”

Jason also stopped walking and stood quietly by Grace’s side, looking at her.

Perhaps some words or some emotions had been bottled up in her heart for too long, so she could not help but want to spit

them out.

“Don’t you think it is incredible that someone like me was once that person’s girlfriend?” She laughed bitterly. “At that time, I was still a new lawyer who had just graduated, and I thought that he and I would get married. But then there was the accident. I swear to God, I wasn’t drinking. I rarely drink and when I do, I never drive! Then they charged me with vehicular manslaughter. Sean broke up with me. I got sentenced to three years, I supposed I was fortunate to get out in three years for good behavior…”

was it like being in

did not continue to talk about the nightmare-like situation in the prison. She shook

asking. He watched her flex

see the scars. The bones that broke that hadn’t been set

in the past.” She tried

she’d been incarcerated, but the information on her that Terrence unearthed had made everything clear.

had not felt anything. He’d read and processed the accounts as if he were looking at data on

to hear her talk about it-or more appropriately, be incapable of talking about it, of dredging up those memories… it had something tightening in

had experienced? When had he, Jason, ever been sad

deep breath and continued, “From then on, I told myself not to trust the so-called love

day, but tomorrow, you can

sentence by kicking a pebble into

away,” he suddenly

“I

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