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

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

notion, Jason

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

of love… to live or die together. It

all-encompassing. All empowering.

suddenly want to experience such a thing? And with

did this mean for him?? Had he

course not.

in that kind of love,

to prove that it was honest and true, and

he had feelings for her. There was a … sentimental attachment,

her and realized that he also

with the feeling of being next to her. He wanted to

her whereabouts, to be there when she came

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

wrong with enjoying someone else’s

with himself, he was falling into deeper

to fall in love… he couldn’t have done

made a promise to himself long ago to never fall

me sad, right?” The gentle tone of her voice resounded

studied her blushing cheeks and a faint smile. He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable position of brother/sister and

the answer she wanted to hear. And he meant it. Protecting her for life was as easy as lifting a finger for him. Hell, his accountants could probably find

stared at him, her eyes so earnest and hopeful, he

pang of unease.

one day discovered that he was not Jay Smith, some vagrant worker,

how would she react to the lie he’d

was likely an

woman had built up walls all around her

really a question of if he

returned to the Sanitation Center for their lunch break. However, she noticed that her colleagues were giving her sidelong glances one at a

many of them were pointing at her as

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