My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

“Are you hungry?”

His dark eyes studied her and he tilted his head. “What?”

When he still didn’t reply, she wrung her hands together. “I’ll get you something to eat.”

Grace moved to the tiny stove and threw some noodles and eggs into the pot to make a simple bowl of noodles for him. She didn’t have any meat, but she chopped what vegetables she had and added them too.

She set the tiny table and poured them both a glass of water from the sink. He moved cautiously to take a seat when she set the bowls down.

“Eat, but don’t eat too fast. It’s quite hot,” she said.

She didn’t mean to treat him like a child, but his presence made her nervous even as there was something incredibly calming about him.

He lowered his head and ate his noodles quietly. Grace also stared at him in silence.

Normally, she’d come home and hate the feeling of being alone, confined in a tiny space. For some reason, the loneliness that she’d usually feel seemed to have disappeared. Could it be due to the presence of another person in the room?

After he had finished eating, Grace cleaned up the plates. “I usually sleep with the lights on. I hope you don’t mind,” she said. Ever since she was released from prison, she had gotten into the habit.

“That’s fine.”

Grace took her pajamas into the bathroom and shut the door to brush her teeth and change. Was it weird having a man alone beside where she’d sleep? Yeah. Probably.

But she didn’t feel triggered by his presence of fearful.

If he’d wanted to hurt her, he wouldn’t have defended her on the street.

When she exited and lay down on the bed, he took his position on the floor.

The room was silent save for the sound of the heater. If she listened hard enough, she could hear each breath he took.

It was a steady rhythm, peaceful even.

Grace closed her eyes and focused on sleeping. This was her routine every night because it was almost impossible for her to relax. Even being out of jail, at night she would always dream of her time in prison.

She would be beaten, shamed, and abused… and every finger would burn with the pain of being broken and the nails being torn off…

She’d wake up screaming, fingers curled, terrified, and heart pounding.

However, oddly, that didn’t happen tonight.

She slept until sunrise and was not visited by her usual nightmares.

As she awakened, she rolled over to look at the figure lying on the ground beside her bed.

Still here.

of him? Because she was no longer alone

of bed, squatted down, and

real, and not something

really had taken a strange

she found that he was already awake. His beautiful eyes

I just… that… If

after

widened with a trace

you don’t want to, just pretend I didn’t

opened and he spoke

had been said by some other man, it would’ve sounded like they were flirting with

“want” or “don’t want” and she assumed he meant it to mean his presence here. She didn’t read any ambiguity into his words, even if there had been, she realized her answer would be the same. Grace pursed

smile slowly

him smile. Although

***

left money on the table for him to buy himself some food,

gone, the room

nervous energy filled the space. He rolled up the quilt

around, maybe snoop a bit. But he didn’t want to

apartment, there were already people waiting for him

out, they respectfully greeted him, “Mr.

go,” Jason

Jason got into it and looked at the twenty-dollar bill in his hand. It had been many years since someone had given him money

with you last night is a contract worker of the Sanitation Service Center. She started renting

“Prison?”

reckless driving and killing Jennifer Atkinson. She was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and had her lawyer’s license revoked,” Terrence said as he carefully

kept his expression bland. “Grace…” he whispered. “Well, this

that she was also a good political marriage candidate, he thought that if he had to marry

thought that Jennifer would end up dying in a car

past relationship

considered that twenty-dollar

Taken his hand, brought him into her home, and said she’d wanted

want all the information you can find on Grace Cummins on my

are

***

He said that since she had been

died when

remarried only a few months after mom died, and her stepmother gave

live with her maternal grandmother in the countryside. Grace’s grandmother cared for her until third grade, but had to leave her. Fortunately, her paternal grandfather stepped in and kept her by his

top of her class, her father finally warmed to her.

well-being, even if only out of pretense. Even her half sister tried to get on her good side—something that had never happened before. From the moment Evelyn was born, she’d taken the role of the favorite child, and she’d

her family’s eyes. She knew it was only because he was the heir of the Stevens Corporation. However, at that time, she still couldn’t help but long for familial affection. She’d just wanted to be

To be loved.

accident, she realized that everything was just her

home, she stepped into

Pictures of the three of them. Not a single photo of her

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