My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

Grace shook her head to clear it.

This was her ‘brother’ and he likely didn’t mean what he’d said the

way she was taking it.

It was an innocent question. She shouldn’t read too much into it.

This attraction she felt…was one-sided and couldn’t go anywhere. If she crossed that line, she’d only stand to lose him. He deserved better than that.

They both did.

She swallowed hard and averted her gaze.

“Of course, I would be sad over you. I care for you deeply.”

“As you did for Sean before you learned the truth about him?”

Actually, she felt more for Jay. But she couldn’t tell him that. If he misinterpreted her meaning, there would be no putting the genie back in the bottle.

And the last thing she wanted was any awkwardness or distance between them.

She valued his friendship too fiercely.

Grace cleared her throat and said, “I can love my younger brother

but that isn’t the same kind of love.”

“Oh?”

Jason wasn’t letting her off the hook, and the whole conversation

thought loving someone was forever and irreplaceable. I

romantic notion, Jason

living happily ever after. He had no experience with such things. His

love… to live or die together. It

all-encompassing. All empowering.

did he suddenly want to experience such a thing?

Had he

Of course

in that kind of

did to prove that it was honest and

that he had feelings for her. There was a

realized that he also

being next to her. He wanted

her whereabouts, to be there when she came home, and

He acknowledged that he liked being near her, and he was okay with it. Why else would

was nothing wrong with enjoying someone else’s company.

with himself, he was falling into deeper emotional territory.

in love… he

long ago to never fall in love with any

sad, right?” The gentle tone of her voice

out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable position of brother/sister and this little

said. Because that was the answer she wanted to hear. And he meant it. Protecting her for life was as easy as

so

pang of unease.

to make her sad, yet… when she one day discovered that he was not

actually Jason Reed, President of Reed Corporation, how would she react

was likely

around

really a question of if he would

next day. After she finished sweeping the streets with Claire, they returned to the Sanitation Center for their lunch break. However, she noticed that her colleagues were giving her sidelong glances one at

many of them were pointing at her as they whispered amongst themselves.

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