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.

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

any positive change.”

her

throat. “I’ve noticed a number of areas on your hands, arms, feet and

trauma.”

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

thought her an abused woman. And she had been.

injuries had come in the form of retaliation

wealthy

older injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his voice was underlaced with

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

and how they healed, there will

complications. Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

care at the time, the conversation

now…”

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my

young now, so the

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

kind of complications?” Jason asked

feel

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

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. Her fingers

been painful, and the time

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

there any way to cure it?”

she asked.

contrary, Grace seemed to

need 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

lost

few years, it seemed all she had known was abuse. Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by her own

she ever know any

few days and we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge

I want to go

you should listen to the doctor,” Jason said.

will,” she agreed. “I’ll take it easy and rest. Please. I just want

barely

to determine any medicines Grace