My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 80

When she said his name Jason’s whole body stiffened.

“Do you hate Jason Reed?” he murmured.

She sighed and said, “Everyone in this City knows him. When

I had the car accident, Jennifer Atkinson was Jason’s fiancée. So, of course, I was not going to get out of it easily. How many people want to curry favor with him? How many people think that by hurting me it’ll gain them favor with him?”

Grace’s eyes took on a faraway look. “Who knows… maybe

if that accident had involved someone else. Someone other than Jennifer Atkinson, I could have won the lawsuit. Would I have been spared from being in jail for three years and

experienced all those things? Maybe.” Her eyes were so earnest when they met his. “I didn’t drink and drive, Jay. I

wouldn’t do that. I still can’t understand how the evidence

could corroborate that sort of thing.”

Jason knew the ins and outs of the case intimately.

She was not angry or sad, but the faint self-degradation she showed made him feel very guilty.

Perhaps half of her pain was because of him.

He squatted in front of her, staring at her bent hands. “It I had

suffer so much, I would have protected you three years ago.”

nothing to do with the game but was something that had

thinking that this woman had suffered because of him. He

wasn’t cruel. And Grace had

that he might bestow some favors on her

tormentors.

thought sickened

the other. But now that he knew her. That he believed her when she said it was all an accident… it opened something in his chest that made him ache with regret.

defended me,” Grace said. She patted his hand. “Alright, let’s not talk about this.”

doing this more and

the hallway and paused beside them, she shifted

got the medicine,” she

Dr. Craigge included two other prescriptions which we

Lina,”

the car from the underground parking lot.

the entrance and wait for

“Alright,” Jason agreed.

slid his arms beneath

are you

be obvious, no?”

you don’t need to carry me.”

suffice. You should probably have crutches.” He hefted her into his arms

the hospital

fine. I just need

Jason agreed. “That means rest from

simply, as if it explained