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.

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,

any positive change.”

her

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

trauma.”

damn well who

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

the form of retaliation and

of wealthy families.

prognosis on the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully.

say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In

traumas and how they healed, there will

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

the conversation

now…”

“But I don’t think

young now, so the effects will be

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

complications?” Jason asked bluntly.

often feel pain in your joints. There

cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able

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 soft

time spent recovering

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

to cure it?” Lina’s

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed

swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take good care of yourself. You can’t afford to continue to abuse your body,”

and was lost to her

she’d been accosted by her own sister, by

she ever know any peace?

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

to go

should listen to

and rest.

gave a barely perceptible

determine any medicines