My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 42

Chapter 42

She combed his bangs gently with a comb, then began to trim

the hairs on his forehead bit by bit. All of her attention was

concentrated on the task at hand.

Jason watched her. The way she studied him, so focused on her

task.

That singular focus had served her well in her life-first with her

education and graduating top of her class at University and later

at Law School. And then in surviving prison.

Guilt stabbed at him.

He saw how she’d been abused in the time that he knew her.

What must her life be like behind bars, with no one to champion or protect her, and countless criminals coming after her all in the hopes of pleasing him?

She sucked in a breath and he hung on to that little sound.

Her mouth was pretty. Full lips, a bright smile.

She didn’t smile enough, he realized.

Her skin was still red, likely from the wind and cold, and though it

pinkened her cheeks and nose, it only enhanced her beauty.

If he looked hard enough, he could see that she’d been beautiful

once.

Her features carried symmetry and character.

But it wasn’t the outward appearance that drew him, but rather

what came from within.

This woman… she’d been the one to fight for him. To sacrifice so that he could have a roof over his head, warm clothes, and something good to eat. She’d asked for nothing in return.

And knowing that she appreciated him for him… awakened something inside him.

done.” After an unknown amount of time, her voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

as if time

steps back, and carefully looked at him for a while. “My skill isn’t too

dry towel and flicked off the fine strands of hair that were stuck to his face, neck, and on his clothes.

go take a shower,” Grace said.

he didn’t set the shower to hot as he normally would. Warm water rushed over his body as he stepped in and lowered his head to rinse away any shorn hairs. As he glanced

had grown very shallow. However, every

he would

had abandoned

this wound was the only thing

pushing him away as he knelt and begged her not to leave, and not to abandon him and his father.

had shaken her head

she could leave, he’d

of rebar. Jason’s memories didn’t remember the construction

the day, aside from what

into a

he fell on pierced

metal had gotten very close

He was lucky, a centimeter to the

able to save his life at all.

time, he had told himself that that

his mother.

walled himself off.

father’s death, he

anyone.

have expectations, he

was just

off the tap, wiped his body

out of the

the table and

something.

had he started having expectations of

to seeing her

happiness.

moments when she looked at him with

and smiled. Her smile lit up the whole room.

“Jay”.

of his name on her lips brought him

I’ll help you blow dry your hair,” she said

of the

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