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

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

on your hands,

trauma.”

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

was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused

in the form of retaliation and

wealthy families.

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

to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In my professional

and how they healed, there

Miss

care at the time, the conversation

now…”

don’t think

still young now, so the effects

But injuries like this can play

kind of complications?”

often feel pain in

If it is serious, you may not be able to lift heavy

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 and

the attacks had been painful, and the time spent recovering from them, even more

doubt, what the doctor said about

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

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to be

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

and was lost to her thoughts after

all she had known was abuse. Being out of prison, she’d been

ever know any

we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge was

want to go

I think you should listen to the doctor,” Jason

will,” she agreed. “I’ll take it easy and

a barely perceptible

“Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments he