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.

X-rays of her hands. “You sustained multiple broken bones and fractures. Many of these injuries to your fingers did not set

any positive change.”

lowered her

noticed a number of areas on your hands, arms,

trauma.”

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

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

in the form of retaliation and

wealthy families.

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

to say,” Dr. Craigge

the traumas and how they healed, there will

Miss Cummins had sustained

at the time, the

now…”

think there’s

young now, so the effects will be

can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the complications will slowly come

kind of complications?” Jason asked

feel pain in your

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

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

been painful, and the time spent recovering from them,

bones and joints ached. So no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries

any way to cure it?”

she asked.

seemed to be

life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take

and was 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 his sister and

know

we can

I want to go

should listen

and rest.

barely perceptible nod.

medicines Grace will need and what follow

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