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 did not set properly, and at this stage, it’s unlikely given the

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

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

trauma.”

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

information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by some vile

come in the form of retaliation

wealthy families.

prognosis on the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his voice was underlaced with hostility.

Craigge admitted. “In my

the traumas and how they

if Miss Cummins had sustained

at the time, the conversation would be

now…”

Grace frowned. “But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my body.”

young now, so

play into degenerative issues,

of complications?”

you may often feel pain in

not be able to lift heavy things with your hands, and you might

afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no

the time spent recovering from them, even more

her bones and joints ached. So no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over time… it all made sense.

any way to cure it?” Lina’s voice

she asked.

seemed to

mainly need to recuperate and eat food 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 can’t afford to continue to abuse your body,” Dr. Craigge

was lost to her thoughts after that.

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

know any

stay a few days and we can monitor her,”

want to

should listen to the doctor,” Jason

and rest. Please. I just want

gave a barely

any medicines