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.

are injuries that would point to more sustained, systemic trauma.” He gestured toward the X-rays of her hands. “You sustained multiple broken bones and fractures. Many of these injuries to your fingers did not set properly, and at this stage, it’s unlikely given the bone fusion and time lapsed that re-breaking and resetting the bones would

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

of areas on your hands, arms, feet

trauma.”

knew damn well who

probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not

in the form of retaliation and on

wealthy families.

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

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

the traumas and how

if Miss

at the time, the conversation would be

now…”

frowned. “But I don’t think

still young now, so the effects will

adapted to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you

of complications?” Jason asked

feel pain in your joints.

serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things with your hands, and you might

and feet. Her old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no

the time spent recovering from

joints ached. So no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over time… it

cure it?” Lina’s voice

she asked.

seemed to

and

and was lost to

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

ever know any

a few days and we can monitor

to go

you should listen to the doctor,” Jason said.

it easy and rest. Please. I just

a barely perceptible nod.

to determine any medicines Grace will need