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.

gestured toward the X-rays of her hands. “You sustained multiple broken bones and fractures. Many of these injuries to your fingers

any positive change.”

lowered her

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

trauma.”

well who and what had caused her those

the doctor, it seemed like he was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman.

had come in the form

of wealthy families.

injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his

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

given the traumas and how they healed,

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

care at the time, the conversation

now…”

frowned. “But I don’t think

are still young now, so the effects will

properly adapted to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the complications will slowly come out!”

kind of complications?” Jason asked

may often feel pain in your joints.

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

in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There

the time spent recovering

doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and

there any way to cure it?” Lina’s voice trembled as

she asked.

seemed to

and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also,

lost to her thoughts

Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by her own sister, by ‘friends’ of Sean

ever know any peace?

a few days and we can monitor her,”

want to go

think you should listen to the doctor,” Jason

“I’ll take it easy and

gave a barely

Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments he recommends.”