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

was forever and irreplaceable. I

a romantic notion, Jason

billboards, and living happily ever after. He had no

love… to live or die together. It seemed

all-encompassing. All empowering.

to experience such a thing? And

for him?? Had he fallen in love with her?

course not.

of love, and he challenged

did to prove that it was honest and

her. There was a … sentimental attachment, yes. That was it.

her and realized that he

next to her. He wanted to

whereabouts, to be there when she

safety. He acknowledged that he liked being near her, and he was okay with it. Why else would he have played this game

nothing wrong with

himself, he was falling into deeper

to fall in love… he couldn’t have

to never fall in love with any

sad, right?” The gentle tone of her

cheeks and a faint smile. He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable position of brother/sister and this little insular world they’d created.

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

at him, her eyes so earnest

pang of unease.

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

actually Jason Reed, President of Reed Corporation, how would she react to the lie he’d been

was likely an understatement.

walls all around

of if he would hurt her, but when.

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 a time. Some

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

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