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.

fractures. Many of these injuries to your fingers did not set properly, and at

any positive change.”

lowered her

number of areas on your

trauma.”

lips together. She knew damn well who and

he was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had

had come in the form of retaliation and on

wealthy

the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully.

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

the traumas and how they

Perhaps if Miss

care at the time, the conversation

now…”

I don’t think there’s anything

young now, so the effects will be

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

complications?”

often feel pain in your joints. There

certainly be arthritis. You may have sustained nerve damage or cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things with your

old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons

and the time spent recovering from them, even more

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

is there any way to cure it?” Lina’s

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to be

in life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also,

and was lost to

of prison, she’d been accosted by her

she ever know any

few days and we can monitor

to go home.”

listen to

and

barely perceptible

determine any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments he

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