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.

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

any positive change.”

her

on your hands, arms, feet and legs that

trauma.”

her lips together. She knew damn well who and what had caused her those injuries.

was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by some vile husband or family

in the

wealthy

asked

to say,” Dr. Craigge

how they healed,

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

at the time, the conversation

now…”

“But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my body.”

so

to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the complications will slowly come

of complications?”

you may often feel pain in your joints. There

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

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 were put in

the attacks had been painful, and the time spent recovering from them, even more

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

there any way to cure

she asked.

contrary, Grace seemed to be

and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take good

lost to her thoughts

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

know any

we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge

I want to

listen to the

she agreed. “I’ll take it easy and rest. Please. I just want to

barely perceptible

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