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.

injuries that 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

any positive change.”

her gaze.

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

trauma.”

pressed her lips together. She knew damn well who and

it seemed like he was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by some

had come in the form

of wealthy

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

hard to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted.

traumas and how they healed, there

Perhaps if Miss Cummins had

time, the conversation would be different

now…”

don’t think there’s anything wrong with my body.”

young now, so the effects will be

this can play

kind of complications?” Jason asked bluntly.

future, you may often feel pain in

serious, you may not

her hands and feet. Her old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons to reset her bones. Her fingers were put in soft splints

attacks had been painful, and the time

and joints ached. So no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and

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

she asked.

Grace seemed to

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.

was lost to her thoughts after that.

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

ever know any peace?

can stay a few days and we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge was saying.

I want to go

you should listen

and

a barely

Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace