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.

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 at this stage, it’s unlikely given the bone

any positive change.”

lowered her

of areas on your hands, arms, feet and legs that point to significant

trauma.”

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

an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by some vile husband or

in the form

wealthy families.

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

hard to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted.

the traumas and how they healed,

complications. Perhaps if Miss Cummins had sustained

time, the conversation

now…”

don’t think there’s anything

are still young now, so the effects will be less

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

complications?” Jason asked

feel pain in your

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

wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons

the time spent recovering from them, even

her bones and joints ached. So no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over

there any way to cure

she asked.

seemed to

calcium. Osteoporosis later in life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins

lost

was abuse. Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by

ever know any

can stay a few days and we can monitor her,”

want to go home.”

think you should listen to the doctor,” Jason

“I’ll take it easy and rest. Please. I just want to

gave a barely perceptible

any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments