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.

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

any positive change.”

lowered her

number of areas on

trauma.”

together. She knew damn well who

for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been.

injuries had come in the form of

of wealthy

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

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

given the traumas and how they healed, there will

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

time, the conversation would be different

now…”

frowned. “But I don’t think there’s anything

are still young now, so the effects will

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

of complications?” Jason asked bluntly.

future, you may often feel pain in your joints. There

or cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things

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

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

said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating

to cure it?”

she asked.

seemed to be relatively

these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce 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,”

back and was lost to her thoughts after that.

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

ever know

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

I want to go

should listen to the doctor,” Jason said.

and rest. Please. I just

gave a barely

“Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will