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.

more sustained, systemic trauma.” He gestured toward the X-rays of her hands. “You sustained multiple broken bones and fractures. Many of these injuries

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

noticed a number of areas on your hands, arms, feet

trauma.”

lips together. She knew damn well who and what had

like he was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused

injuries had come in the

wealthy families.

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

Craigge admitted. “In my professional

traumas and how they healed, there will

Miss Cummins had

the time, the conversation would

now…”

don’t think there’s anything wrong with my

still young now, so

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

kind of complications?” Jason

the future, you may often feel

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

looking down at her hands and 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.

and the time spent recovering from

doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over time…

to cure it?” Lina’s voice

she asked.

seemed to be relatively quiet.

issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals.

leaned back and was lost to her

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

ever know any

a few days and we can monitor

to

listen to the doctor,” Jason said.

easy and

a barely perceptible

“Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments