Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Jason squinted his eyes and asked, “Is he looking for a scoop? How did he find out that Grace had been admitted to this hospital?”
“He mentioned that someone posted on social media about you carrying Miss Cummins to this hospital last night, so he came to dig for information,” Terrence replied.
When Jason heard this, he asked coldly, “Was he trying to dig up news about me or Grace?”
“This reporter seems unaware that Miss Cummins has been.
imprisoned before. He only knows her name and reckons that he can write a tabloid article about you,” Terrence said.
Jason said coldly, “Continue to interrogate him. Release him only after you’ve got all the information you need from him.
He mentioned that he saw someone post about this on social media. Go and find out who saw it and who mentioned it!”
“Got it,” Terrence replied.
When Jason pushed open the door to the ward and saw Grace eating her porridge, he wondered if the reporter had chanced upon the news concerning the two of them.
“Was it a coincidence that we were discovered the night before, or… was there something else?”
Grace lifted her head and saw that Jason’s face had darkened. He seemed unhappy, so she stared at him in amazement.
Suddenly, the unhappy aura around him disappeared. A smile. broke out on his handsome face and he began behaving as usual.
“Sis, why are you staring at me?” Jason asked.
With some difficulty, she shook her head and replied, “Oh, it’s nothing.”
In that brief moment, Grace had felt as if she did not recognize him. “Could it be that… this is his true self?” When he smiled at her, he looked like an angel, but it could all just be ant act.
Ever since Zoe had found out that Jason was the man behind. Grace, she had been down on her luck.
That meant that she could not get back at the person who had hurt her leg!
She had been mocked in her social group when they found. out that she had been admitted to the hospital because someone had broken her leg. If she could not recover from her leg injuries, she would be mocked for the rest of her life!
She felt that it was Grace’s fault. If not for her, she wouldn’t be in such a state.
Although Grace had gotten together with Jason, she had kept quiet about it. Zoe suspected that Grace had done it deliberately. She had pretended to be in a disadvantageous.
position in order to trick her into dealing with her. After that, she had gotten Jason to avenge her!
The more Zoe thought about that, the angrier she became.
This day, her friends booked a private room for her to kill her boredom. However, she was unable to enjoy herself as she had to walk around with a crutch.
When Zoe left the private room on her crutch, she saw a group of people walking toward her. One of them looked familiar to her!
When the man walking at the head of the group saw her, he cracked a smile. He immediately walked over to her and said, “Miss Stevens, I’m surprised to see you here. Have you injured your leg? Ah, we should have visited you…”
The man rattled on, trying to fawn over her, but Zoe could not recall who he was. Finally, he said, “I’m the director of FY Secondary Design Research Institute. We have business. dealings with the Stevens Group. I have seen Miss Stevens a couple of times at your Group’s gatherings.”
Although Zoe could not remember if she had met him before, she knew about the Fangyan Design Research Institute. It was a small design research institute. As the boss and one of the relatives of the Stevens Group knew each other, there were times when the Stevens Group would let them take some design jobs which were not as important.
“Are you having a gathering? Can I join you since I’m free?” Zoe suddenly asked.
When the director heard that, he was overjoyed. He said excitedly, “Of course… no problem. It’d be great if you could join us!”
Zoe pursed her lips and smiled as she looked at a woman in the group from the corner of her eyes. She remembered that the woman had gone shopping with Grace, so she must be her friend. Although she could not vent her frustrations on Grace, she could do so to her friend!
When Lina’s eyes met Zoe’s, she got a bad feeling.
As expected, shortly after eating dinner, Zoe toasted with everybody. As it was inconvenient for her due to her injured leg, everyone took turns to go and toast her.
When Lina was toasting her, Zoe deliberately shook her hand and dropped the wine glass to the floor. The wine splashed over her shoe.
However, Zoe said, “Even if you have no wish to toast me, you shouldn’t have made me drop my wine glass. You could have told me that I was not welcome to join you for dinner and I
would have left.”
Lina stared at Zoe after hearing what she had said. The director immediately stood in front of Zoe and insisted that Lina apologize to her without finding out if it was her fault.
“Lino, apologize to Miss Stevens immediately!”
“That’s right, Lina, apologize immediately!”
Her colleagues echoed.
All of them knew that Zoe was out to make things difficult for Ling, but no one dared to offend her. She was from the
Stevens Group, and they could lose their jobs if they did so.
Lina stood still and stared at Zoe, not saying a word.
“Lina, don’t get us into trouble. Do you want us to lose our jobs?” the director said softly to Lina as he pulled her to the side.
Lina gritted her teeth and walked slowly over to Zoe. She lowered her eyelids and said, “Miss Stevens, I’m sorry. It’s my fault.”
Zoe curled her lips into a smile and said, “Since you’re aware that it’s your fault, you should make up for it. My shoe is dirty. Clean it and I’ll forget about the matter.”
Lina stared at Zoe upon hearing those words.
Zoe said, “I’m injured and I believe that you will not really insist upon me cleaning the shoe myself.”
Lina’s colleagues urged her to do it as well.
Lina had no choice but to bend down and clean Zoe’s wet shoe. She knew that Zoe was taking revenge on her.
Suddenly, she felt glad that she was the one Zoe was taking revenge on. If she had taken revenge on Grace, Grace would have been deeply hurt by her.
Grace had been through a lot.
All of a sudden, Zoe lifted her foot and stepped on Lina’s hand. She exerted a lot of force, seeming like she wanted to crush her hand.
Lina cried out in pain. No one had been expecting Zoe to act in that manner and they were taken by surprise.