My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 57

Grace raised her head slightly and looked to her side. Then, she

heaved a sigh of relief. She looked up at Jason and said, “Have you paid the bill?”

“Mm-hmm. I have.”

“Then let’s go,” she said, picking up her bag and walking out of the restaurant with him as if she was running away from something.

“What’s wrong? Are you hiding from something?” he asked.

Her footsteps paused, and an obscure look flashed across her face. “My former colleagues came here to eat too, I… I don’t want them to see me.” She said with a self-deprecating smile, “It’s ridiculous, isn’t it? In fact, they all know what I’ve been through and they probably can guess how miserable I must be right now, but I still don’t want to see them face to face.”

She didn’t want to see the sympathy in their eyes. She didn’t want to see their pity. Or their disgust.

She’d embarrassed her firm too when everything transpired in the wake of the accident.

The news had been quick to report not just her name, but the law

firm she worked for too. It was a juicy bit of news to say that the ‘top attorney now needed one of her own.’

In the past, being a lawyer was something she had wanted to devote her entire life to. But now, although her colleagues were still doing that job, it was no longer a profession she could ever hope to practice again.

Her self-deprecating look at the moment made a sudden pain shoot through his heart.

He held her hand tighter and said in a low voice, “Then let’s avoid them. One day in the future, you will shine more beautifully than anyone else.”

didn’t want to think about any of that.

heard from Lily that you wanted to help Grace Cummins find a job. I’m warning you,

then, she killed

Our Stevens Family

Jason!”

end of the phone, and Sean

cannot afford to offend Jason Reed,”

It all came down to money

hell

many times. Back then, everyone had been asking him why he

in the first

Atkinson family and the Stevens Family were well-matched. Way back then, the Atkinson family and the Reed Family had almost been tied together through marriage, and although it hadn’t

other.

that if

speak up for them in front of

Jason Reed.

were vital

based on the relationships they

other wealthy families in

at the red light at the

him and slowly stepped on

in his

current Grace

woman he’d known in the