My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

hapter 65

The cold glint in Jason’s dark eyes sent shivers down Sean’s spine.

“What gave you the impression you were permitted to ask questions?” Terrence remarked. “When you shouldn’t ask something, don’t.” Terrence shoulder-nudged Sean toward the door. Beneath his breath, he muttered, “How can you not understand this, Mr. Stevens?”

Sean’s face went pale and he left feeling embarrassed.

That one question could’ve been a serious misstep on his behalf.

Sweat beaded on his brown as Terrence opened his car door.

Jason leaned against the back of the sofa and took out a cheap mobile phone. There was only one number in the contacts list.

He pressed that number. After a while, a gentle female voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

“Sister,” he said slowly. “What do you want to eat for dinner? I’ll bring it back for you,” he said softly. The coldness in his eyes was replaced with tenderness.

At night, Grace was wiping the photo frame that held her mother’s photo with a paper towel. She had gone to buy a small desk just to house this photo and she made it a point to dust it

days. All of her mother’s belongings had been left with the CumminsFamily. This photo was the only

wiped the photo frame, Jason sat to one side, looking at

a bus ticket?” Grace asked. In the past two days, many of her colleagues from the Sanitation Service Center had been struggling to get tickets for the journey back home to

don’t have

Grace said. She nodded once. “I can

tomorrow.”

he suddenly realized what she was trying to ask. “I don’t

home?” she

home.” Even though he had stayed in the Reed Residence for so many years, he had never

family, but… didn’t people normally have relatives or something? People

smiled faintly and said,

for the old head of the Reed family, although they were grandfather and grandson, family affection was something that didn’t exist

about anything else. But if he ever disappointed the family, even if he

of the blood in his

of it. He remembered how when he was a child, grandfather had looked at him in disgust several times and said with a ferocious. expression, “Why do you have that

time, Jason had been beaten by his grandfather many times already. The infractions ranged from a less than perfect score on a school test to speaking out of turn.

only after he had grown up and begun to show his capabilities in the boardroom that grandfather’s attitude towards him had slowly changed.