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

the Stevens Family,” Grace

speculations.

it was a bit ridiculous. “Isn’t he thinking too much into it?”

raised her hand to

to see you spend it on yourself. It’s the least that piece of shit can do, after how he and that

be taking that to

“No. I won’t.”

“You’re just going to

incredulous.

needs it,” Grace answered and carefully put the check into

sighed. “That prick

like that, the painfulness of that encounter

around for a while, and shared several small dishes in the mall food court. It was so much like old times! Grace could

there was no undoing the

she was now, stronger and more self-aware, she didn’t resent it. If not for everything in the past, she wouldn’t have come to know

back,” Grace

baklava dessert for Jay. She was eager to take it home to him.

enter the escalator to the underground parking lot, they saw Sean, Zoe, and

like a bad rash that

expressions of anger, disbelief and good old-fashioned hatred. They all stopped talking when they saw Grace and Lina

suggested that they walk around

Lina’s lead, lifting her head and keeping

and shook her

“If you so much as say another

couldn’t believe it. “You’d punish me!? For

walked quicker toward the escalator and was about to pass by them, Zoe suddenly stretched out her foot right in Grace’s

guard and tripped. She pitched forward, and the moving

and quickly ran

to press the emergency stop button.