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

would suffer so much, I

to do with the game but was something that had come

him. He

Grace had been tortured for

that he might bestow some favors on

tormentors.

thought sickened

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

defended me,” Grace said. She patted his hand. “Alright, let’s not talk about this.” Grace smiled again and lifted her hand to rub his dark hair.

doing

and paused beside them, she

feet awkwardly. “I, uh, got the medicine,” she

them. “And Dr. Craigge included two other prescriptions

Lina,” Grace

the car from the underground parking lot.

the entrance and wait

“Alright,” Jason agreed.

arms

what are you doing?”

should be obvious,

have wheelchairs, you don’t need to carry me.”

boot they give you won’t suffice. You should probably have crutches.” He hefted her into

intended to carry her back into the hospital room to argue

Grace said. “I’m fine. I just

means rest from

if