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.

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

any positive change.”

lowered her

throat. “I’ve noticed a number of areas on your hands,

trauma.”

knew damn well

was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not

the form

of wealthy

asked carefully. Again, his voice was underlaced

Craigge admitted. “In my

the traumas and how they

Miss

the time, the conversation would be

now…”

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

are still young now, so the effects

and, you’ve properly adapted to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the complications will

complications?”

you may often feel pain in your joints. There

If it is serious, you may not

time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by

the time spent recovering from them,

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

to cure

she asked.

Grace seemed to

that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take

and was lost to

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

she ever know any peace?

and we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge was

to

you should listen

take it easy and rest.

a barely perceptible nod.

Jason said. “Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need