My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 40

“Dad, you must really miss Jennifer too,” Lily said. “It’s really laughable how when I saw Grace that day, she had no hint of remorse for Jennifer’s death.”

“All right, don’t speak of that woman,” Harold replied.

As they spoke, they could hear footsteps from the stairs. The father and daughter duo raised their heads to see Jason coming down the stairs.

“Did you come to see me for something?” Jason asked calmly as his gaze swept across the two people before him.

As Jason’s cold eyes took in Lily, she could feel her body tensing slightly. There was a time when her sister had been madly in love with this man!

Lily still remembered her sister talking to her with a dreamy expression on her face. “I once thought that I could never get a man like Jason in this life. He’s too cold, too logical, and even if you hug him, it’s as if you can’t feel any of his warmth. We can be together in a room, and he’s still a hundred miles away. He’s just like exquisite and beautiful porcelain. You can see his surface but you can never see what’s beneath.”

“Yes.” Lily thought so too. Every time she saw Jason, she was unable to see the man clearly. In hindsight, her sister’s choice of a husband may not have been the best one. Oh, for political and

financial reasons, Jennifer couldn’t have done better, but there was something glacial about Jason.

cold and callous.

never tried to make a go of things with Jason, neither before nor after the accident. Even though Jason was very good-looking and backed by the large Reed

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sister may have been head-over-heels in love with Jason and had finally gotten his consent to marry, but Lily doubted the

Jennifer.

Jennifer wasn’t wonderful in

man was incapable of love.

funeral, Jason did not shed

an impetuous child, who caused an incident that impacted us negatively. I’ve already scolded her. We hope that you can still attend Lily’s and Sean’s engagement dinner. Lily is Jennifer’s only sibling, and I’m

if his throat was turning dry and he could not finish

to say.

the business

by someone who was almost his son-in-law. He felt as if Jason could see through his every thought.

would cause so much trouble. Lying about jewelry and then forcing minimum wage workers to search

nodded. “Yes, Jason. This was handled very poorly.”

a daughter,” Jason said with a faint smile. “Children should be