My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 79

Jason strode into the hospital room. His gaze swept the space, taking in the machines beeping, the x-rays mounted on the wall and the physician standing quietly at Grace’s bedside.

“You’re here!” Grace said.

“There was a traffic jam on the highway, or I would’ve been here sooner,” Jason replied.

She smiled. “You arrived faster than I expected.” She picked at

the bedsheets. “I hate that I inconvenienced you…”

Jason moved to the opposite side of the hospital bed to engage the physician directly.

Lina returned to the room and handed Grace a small cup of water. “One second you were in the ER, the next you were gone. Sorry, Grace. It took me a minute to devise where they’d moved you to.”

“I’m fine,” Grace said easily. She sipped the water.

“Doctor, how is she?” Lina asked. “Is my friend all right? She was knocked down several steps by someone on the

escalator.”

Grace watched Jason as Lina relayed the events. She wasn’t

too happy with her friend for saying all of that. A muscle in Jason’s jaw started to tick.

“The injury is not too serious,” the doctor said. “Thankfully,

there is no internal hemorrhaging or any signs of TBI-

traumatic brain injury.”

Lina sighed loudly in relief.

“What did you discover?” Jason asked in a deadly calm voice.

Dr. Craigge turned back to him. “There are some slight fractures. We’ll put her foot in a brace, and she should stay off

it for a few weeks to allow the bones around her ankle to heal,

but… Dr. Craigge hesitated.

“But what?” Jason asked in a frigid tone.

Grace trembled.

Many of these injuries to your fingers did not

any positive change.”

lowered her

“I’ve noticed a number of areas on

trauma.”

damn well

thought her an abused woman. And she had been.

the form

of wealthy families.

the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his voice

hard to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In my professional

given the traumas and how they healed, there

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had sustained

care at the time, the conversation

now…”

don’t think there’s anything wrong

so the effects will

and, you’ve properly adapted to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the

complications?” Jason

often feel pain

cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things with your hands, and you

feet. Her old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons to reset her bones. Her fingers

had been painful, and the time spent recovering from them,

no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over time… it all

cure it?” Lina’s voice trembled as

she asked.

Grace seemed to be

to recuperate and eat food that’s high in calcium. Osteoporosis later in life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have

and was lost to her

known was abuse. Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by her own sister, by ‘friends’ of Sean and even his sister and

she ever know any peace?

few days and we can monitor her,” Dr.

I want to go

should listen

easy and rest. Please. I

gave a barely

said. “Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines