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

different feelings. I thought loving someone was forever and irreplaceable. I even… thought that lovers could

romantic notion,

of fairytales, 3D projector billboards, and living happily ever after. He had no experience with such things. His parents certainly were

love… to live or

all-encompassing. All empowering.

to experience such a thing? And with Grace.

this mean for him?? Had he fallen in love

course not.

that kind of love,

prove that it was honest and

her. There was

that he also had become

feeling of being next to her.

whereabouts, to be there

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

nothing wrong with

really honest with himself, he

he couldn’t

made a promise to himself long ago to never fall in love with any woman!

Jay would never make me sad, right?” The gentle tone of

and a faint smile. He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into

brother will never make you sad,” he said. Because that was the answer she wanted to hear. And he meant it. Protecting her for life was

she stared at him, her eyes so earnest and

pang of unease.

make her sad, yet… when she one day

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

was likely an understatement.

all around her and he’d been let

question of if he

the 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 a time. Some glances were

them were pointing at her as

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