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.

are injuries that 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

any positive change.”

her

a number of areas on your hands, arms, feet and legs

trauma.”

well who and what had caused

thought her an abused woman. And she had

come in the form of retaliation

wealthy families.

asked carefully. Again, his voice was

to say,” Dr. Craigge

traumas and how they

Miss Cummins had sustained

care at the time, the conversation would be different

now…”

“But I don’t think there’s anything wrong

young now, so the

play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the

complications?” Jason asked

the future, you may often feel

be arthritis. You may have sustained nerve damage or cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things with your hands, and you might have trouble walking,” Dr. Craigge

hands and feet. Her old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment

painful, and the time

doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening,

is there any way to cure it?” Lina’s

she asked.

Grace seemed to be relatively

that’s high in calcium. Osteoporosis later in life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take good care of yourself. You

and was lost to

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

she ever know any peace?

few days and we can

I want to go

listen to the

easy and

gave a barely perceptible

Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will