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.

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.”

lowered her gaze.

number of areas on

trauma.”

knew damn well who

an abused woman. And she had

injuries had come in the form of retaliation

wealthy families.

is the prognosis on the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully.

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

traumas and how they healed, there

if Miss Cummins

time, the conversation would be different

now…”

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

so the effects will

can play

of complications?” Jason asked bluntly.

the future, you may often feel pain

you may not be able to lift heavy things with your

her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by

time spent

no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain

to cure it?” Lina’s voice

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to be

foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take

back and was lost to her

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

ever know any peace?

days and we can monitor her,”

want to

you should listen to the

and rest. Please. I just

barely

Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need and