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.

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 at this stage, it’s unlikely given the bone fusion

any positive change.”

her

number of areas on your hands, arms,

trauma.”

knew damn well who and what had caused her those injuries.

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

injuries had come in the form of retaliation and on

wealthy

is the prognosis on the older injuries?” Jason asked

say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In

traumas and how they

Miss Cummins

the time, the

now…”

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

young now, so the effects will

properly adapted to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so

complications?” Jason asked

may often feel pain in your

is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy

afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons to reset her bones. Her fingers were

attacks had been painful, and the time spent

said

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

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to be relatively

foods that reduce swelling and inflammation.

was lost to her thoughts after

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

she ever know any

days and we can monitor her,”

want to

should listen to the doctor,” Jason

agreed. “I’ll take it easy and

barely perceptible nod.

medicines Grace will need and what follow up