Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Grace’s face could not help but turn a little red. Subconsciously, she wanted to turn away.
However, his fingers were under her chin the very next moment. “Sis seemed to be watching me intently just now. Why? Do you think I’m good looking?”
She choked. How was she supposed to answer? Should she say that he was good looking? Or that he was not?
Either one did not seem like a good answer! Grace felt her face burning and tried to avoid his gaze, but she was unable to do so.
The servant who was on the side tactfully looked down, but the mere sound of their conversation roused a tempest in her heart.
Young Master Reed treated Miss Cummins differently. Was it true that Miss Cummins would someday be the mistress of the Reed family as some people had said?
However, did Miss Cummins not work as a sanitation service worker at the Sanitation Service Center?
Was it possible for… Young Master Reed to marry such a woman?
At night, Grace laid in bed. She was still awake and looking at her fingers wrapped in gauze under the light of the moon through the window. Jason had been changing her dressing himself these days.
He was more attentive toward her than Sean Stevens was when he was dating her, and sometimes, she could not help but be absent-minded for a moment.
If… If he was not Jason and was someone else, maybe she would fall in love with him.
After all, there were few women who would not be charmed by a man who pampered them and was a feast for the eyes.
However, because he was Jason and because there was a lingering fear of him in her heart, she would constantly remind herself to wake up when she found herself distracted.
‘After the wounds on my hands get better, I’ll leave immediately,’ thought Grace.
The next day, she began using her phone to search the internet. for food delivery rider jobs and created her resume.
The threshold for food delivery riders was relatively low, but all of them required a health certificate. Grace found herself having to get a health certificate before she could work in the industry. This meant that she needed to make a trip to the hospital.
Come to think of it, she seemed to end up going to the hospital quite frequently these days.
It would cost her some money to get a health certificate and to do basic tests. As her money got lesser and lesser, it became more and more precious to her.
Two days later, Grace’s fingers were no longer wrapped in gauze.
However, there were faint scars where she had been burned.
Jason held up her fingers and stared at the scars on her fingertips.
“I’ll ask the hospital to prescribe some medicine to remove the scars. It shouldn’t be a problem to remove them.”
“It doesn’t matter even if they can’t be removed,” Grace said. She was happy to trade the scars for half the album.
“You may not mind, but I do,” he muttered. The scars on her fingertips seemed to remind him of his mistake.
If he had insisted on going with her to her house that day, she would not have hurt her hand.
“I want Sis to be perfectly fine and not an inch hurt,” he muttered.
She was suddenly tempted to laugh. Not an inch hurt? However, she had already been so badly hurt when she was in prison!
“My hand is pretty much healed now. When can I go back to the rental house?” she said, changing the subject.
He paused slightly as he caressed her fingertips. “Why do you want to go back so soon?”
“I’ve recovered from my injury. There’s no reason for me to live here anymore.” She bit her lip slightly.
“Do you want to get out of here?” His face grew cold.
“Yes.” She nodded.
“Are you that desperate to stay away from me?” Even his voice had grown cold.
“I’m used to being alone,” she said.
He gave a sudden sneer. “Used to being alone? If that’s the case, why did you take me home in the first place? It was you who said that you’re too lonely, so you wanted someone to accompany you. It was also you who said you want to be with me and want us to rely on each other. Have you forgotten all this?”
Her eyelashes quivered a little. How could she have forgotten that? However, it was all a joke now.
She was silent, and he looked at her steadily. The suffocating pressure was in the air again.
Suddenly, his voice rang in her ears once again. “You said your want to leave because your wound has more or less healed, right?
Does that mean if you were hurt, you would be willing to stay here?”
Startled, she raised her head suddenly and stared at him.
However, he leaned forward in a flash. With his hand on the back of her head, his thin lips were instantly glued to her red lips.
She felt his breath filling the tip of her nose, and before she knew it, the kiss had begun.
He kept on soliciting, and she kept on losing ground. No matter how hard she tried, it seemed that she could not get out of this kiss.
Just as she felt herself suffocating, she felt a sharp pain in her lips. It was followed by a bloody smell in her mouth.
By the time the kiss was over, Grace felt only a whiff of pain in the corner of her lip he had bitten her until her lips were bleeding!
He smirked and looked at her with a faint smile. However, his bright amorous eyes were now a burst of cold.
He lifted his finger and brushed it lightly over her injured lip. A streak of blood immediately stained his fingertips.
The hues of white and red looked so contrasting.
He smiled, sticking out the tip of his tongue to lick the blood on his fingertip. “You see, Sis. It’s easy for you to get hurt, isn’t it? Since your injury is not healed yet, you have to stay here.”
He was smiling, but it made her shiver. She went cold, and her palms and back were covered with sweat.
This was Jason, a man who ruled Emerald City!
She was like a pawn in his hand. She could not get away no matter what!
Could she still escape from him? Or could she never escape unless he got tired of her?
At that moment, Grace suddenly wondered about her future.