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.

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

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

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

trauma.”

She knew damn well who and what had caused

digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman.

the form

wealthy

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

hard to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In

traumas and how they healed,

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had sustained

the time, the conversation would be

now…”

think there’s anything wrong with my body.”

young now, so the effects will

to the pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative

of complications?”

future, you may often feel pain

nerve damage or cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things

the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons to reset her

and the time

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

way to cure

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to

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.

back and was lost to her

prison, she’d been accosted by her own sister, by ‘friends’ of Sean

she ever know any

and we can monitor

to go

listen to the doctor,” Jason said.

it easy and

gave a barely perceptible nod.

Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace