Chapter 83

“If I’m dismissed, I don’t have anything to fall back on. The

accident… all of my savings were cleared out with court fees

and fines. I need this job. It pays the rent and buys our food…”

“You still have me!” he shouted.

Grace gasped. Jay never yelled. He was always calm. Even in

horrible situations-violent situations-he was not so volatile.

“I’ll earn money to take care of you,” he said more quietly. As if the outburst never happened. “Don’t give it another thought.”

Grace stared dazedly at the man before her. She believed

him. Even though he didn’t have a steady job and no home of his own, she trusted his word. Indeed, his words had given her an unprecedented sense of security.

Maybe she didn’t have to go it alone. Maybe she did have someone she could rely on.

“Make the call.” He brought the phone before her.

She hesitated for a few seconds, then took the phone and called her manager on-call at the Sanitation Center.

As the phone rang and she waited to be connected to her manager, she felt her blood pressure rise. She didn’t love this job, but she really didn’t want to lose it. She trusted that Jay could provide for them, but she didn’t want that responsibility

to fall to him.

“Hello, Mrs. Jacobson,” she said politely when her boss answered. Then she gave a summary of the accident, leaving out the whole “I was pushed by Zoe Stevens and bullied by my

new fiancee Lily

no. Or that she’d have to apply with the county or

there were no extra hurdles. To her total surprise,

about her health and

week if she needed to. Furthermore, she would

wage and her

affected.

couldn’t believe it.

Jason

“She said yes.”

continued to wash her foot, and his hand slipped around to massage

in a

cut to

uh, told me to take more

“That particular manager has never been very warm

toward me…”

overthink it. You’re injured. It’s the right thing

of goodness from her foot to the top

washed or massaged her like this? Sean never did.

intimate times, he wasn’t one for much

up her leg

She could imagine his strong hands, those long fingers, tracing higher up her legs, to where they v-ed. And once her thoughts took that turn, she couldn’t look at him without imagining the things he

all right.Thank you. I’m, uh, all clean,!” she hurriedly said. Ankles…

his fingers were still gripping her leg. “Let me dry you.”

okay. I’m not that wet.” At least her legs and

move, Sister,”

was the meds from the hospital. Maybe it was

Whatever the reason…

She wanted him.

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