My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 76

Grace took the check and left the store with Lina.

There was cursing and muttering and she could only imagine how the store personnel would gossip-and she didn’t care.

She’d meant to get under their skin. It was petty and

unnecessary and she’d only wanted Sean to feel shameful for

a few brief seconds.

But he’d called her bluff and carried through with it.

And Sean wasn’t a wealthy man by accident. He was very stingy-when he wasn’t trying to outdo himself for

appearances.

“Grace, don’t you think it’s a little weird?” As soon as they walked out of the store, Lina said, “Sean wrote you a huge check and gave it to you without hesitation. Lily was present too! Isn’t he afraid his ‘fiancee’ will lose her shit?”

“It is quite strange,” Grace said neutrally.

“Uh, does Sean still like you?” Lina ventured.

Grace shrugged. “No, I don’t think that’s it.”

“Grace, he just spent an obscene amount of money on you.”

“True. But I don’t think it’s affection that prompted it. I don’t even think it’s ego. Sean’s too cheap for that. I think it’s fear.

It seems that he is afraid that I will get mad at Zoe and then

Family,” Grace

speculations.

Lina thought it was a bit ridiculous.

hand to look at the

“Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see you

won’t be taking that to the bank.”

“No. I won’t.”

shook her head. “You’re just going to tear it up?”

incredulous.

up? I’ll just donate it to someone who needs it,” Grace answered and carefully put

Then she sighed. “That prick will probably use it as

just like that, the painfulness

court. It was so much like old times! Grace could almost imagine that the last few years hadn’t

no undoing the past.

be who she was now, stronger and more self-aware, she didn’t resent

back,” Grace

and the full baklava dessert for Jay. She

they were about to enter the escalator to the underground parking lot, they saw

these people were like a bad rash that just wouldn’t

and good old-fashioned hatred. They all stopped talking when they

held Lina back and suggested that they walk around the long way, but she didn’t

lead, lifting her head and

shook

warned. “If you so much as say another word to her

“You’d punish me!?

toward the escalator and was about to pass by them,

was caught off guard and tripped. She pitched forward, and the moving

quickly ran to the side of

the emergency stop button.