Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Grace heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that the reporters who had come for the event had left.
However, when she stepped out of the Sanitation Service Center, she saw Sean walking toward her.
Fear trickled up her spine and she hated herself for that momentary reaction.
“How… have you been?” Sean asked. He had used to hate this woman. He hated her for causing Jennifer’s death and for all the drama that followed. She had caused him to be reprimanded by his family, and his family had almost been destroyed by her. No one wronged the Reed Group. No one.
Because of Grace, he’d had to pay the price for it.
However, when he saw her wearing the sanitation worker’s uniform, he frowned. After all, he had once loved this woman.
She shook her head. “I believe that it is none of Mr. Steven’s business whether I’m doing fine,” Grace replied flatly as she tried
to walk away from him.
“Grace, you don’t know what’s good for you!” Sean said as he blocked her way.
“Do I not know what’s good for me?” Grace sneered. She looked
at Sean directly and asked, “Do you intend to get Lily-your
fiancee to pull out my fingernails and break my fingers again? Will it make you happy if I become unable to even hold a broom in
the future?
It had been three years, Sean. I still have pain!”
She shuttered down immediately, likely resenting that she said that much.
Sean rubbed his chin. He did what he’d had to do back then. And she had brought it upon herself.
Grace laughed harshly. “I can’t believe you’re even here right now.
Back then, when I had needed you the most, you treated me like
some stranger on the street. You let me suffer, you encouraged
people to torture me. And now you’re standing here, asking if I’m doing fine! What a joke!”
Sean frowned. What she said was true.
“You have to bear the consequences of your actions, Grace. You
deserved to be punished. You caused the death of Lily’s sister,
and she was within her right to seek revenge. You can’t complain
about what she did to you!”
Grace’s face turned pale. “Actually, I can. We have laws, Sean. And while we both know that no one will care about the
accusations of some lowly sanitation worker, the fact remains that you and Lily broke the law. You abused your power. What you did
was criminal, and someday that truth might come out What
then?”
“I’m not going to debate with you,” Sean said. “You killed an innocent woman. And not even your own family sympathized!” Sean snapped. Then he calmed down. “Look. The past is behind us.” After letting out a sigh, he said, “When I’m back in the office, I’ll inform the manager in my Human Resource Department to get you a clerical job in one of the companies under the Stevens Group. It will be better than sweeping the streets every day.”
Grace pursed her lips, finding Sean’s offer to be absurd. He…what exactly? Wanted to assuage his guilt by getting her a job? It was his fault she’d been unemployable everywhere else in the city.
She started to walk away from him.
“Don’t walk away from me,” Sean said angrily. “I’m still talking to you. Seriously, Grace. I’m already taking a risk by offering to help
you!”
“Did anyone ever ask you to take that risk?” Grace asked flatly. “Did you ever hear of too little, too late, Sean? When I needed you most, you abandoned me.” She shook her head.”There is no need for this. Moreover, aren’t you afraid that your fiancee will hear?”
“Hear about what?” a sharp voice asked. Sean’s eyes widened. “What is it that you’re keeping from me?”
Sean froze. He released his grip on Grace’s arm immediately and turned to look at Lily, who was walking toward him.
“It’s nothing,” he said quietly.
Lily arched a brow. “Hmm.” She swept up to Sean and looped her arm through his. “Sean, darling, why did you stop to talk to this kind of person? Aren’t you afraid that Jason Reed will hear about
it? You know my sister is the only woman Jason ever loved. Although my sister has been dead for three years, he has never had another woman…”
Although Lily did not complete her sentence, everyone knew what
she meant.
Sean’s face paled when he remembered the Projection Ads that
had been taken down and Jason Reed’s refusal to attend their
engagement banquet.
There were far-reaching effects of angering Mr. Reed. Effects
neither he nor Stevens Corporation could afford.
His family reckoned that it was because of Grace that Jason had refused to meet them. But now, he didn’t know what to think.
“Grace, you’re only fit to be a sanitation worker.” Lily smiledcruelly. “And you’re so good at it!”
Grace’s eyes narrowed. She was furious.
Lily’s recent actions weren’t helping, and for once, Sean wished she would just shut up instead of being so spiteful.
“Do you think Mr. Reed knows that you’re already out of prison?” She tapped her chin with her free hand. “He made your life a living hell in there, didn’t he?”.
Grace shuddered.
“Funny, if he doesn’t know it already, he just might recognize you on the news from our interviews today. Maybe you should think about relocating. I believe that before long, you will no longer be able to survive in this city,” Lily said. With that, she walked away
with Sean, holding him by the arm.
Grace watched them leave.
She took her tools and headed toward a section of the highway, riding on the bicycle provided by the Sanitation Service Center.
Grace had already buried the feelings that she had had for Sean. Any emotions she had for him, had died long ago. Seeing him. again, while a bit of a surprise, didn’t stir anything in her heart. It
didn’t even raise much amity. He was just…dead to her.
She didn’t feel anything for him. And seeing Sean and Lily holding each other intimately, bah. They deserved each other.