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

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

had nothing to do with the game but was something

this woman had suffered because of him. He was cold,

And Grace had been tortured

he might bestow some favors on her

tormentors.

sickened him.

way or 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

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

doing this more and more

the hallway and paused beside them, she

awkwardly. “I, uh, got the medicine,”

the two of them. “And Dr. Craigge included two other

you, Lina,” Grace

the underground parking lot.

entrance and

“Alright,” Jason agreed.

his arms beneath her

what are you

should be obvious, no?”

you don’t need

walking boot they give you won’t suffice. You should probably have

carry her back into the hospital room to argue

no,” Grace said. “I’m fine. I just need some rest.”

agreed. “That means

simply, as if