Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
She kept her mouth shut and helped him up. She held the gla** to his lips. He drank it mouthful by mouthful, though it was not long before he finished the whole gla** of warm water.
Jason slowly closed his eyes after he finished drinking. “But… I
wish I can hurt more.”
She looked at him in confusion. Then, she heard him mutter, “I’m afraid my pain is much less than what you had suffered. Will you feel better if I hurt a little? If so, will you hate me less?”
Grace looked surprised. She never thought Jason would say such a thing.
Was he… sorry for what had happened to her… in prison?
Just then, her phone rang. It was a call from the deliveryman with the medicine.
Grace then said to Jason, “Wait here while I go and get the medicine.” With that, she hurried out of the mourning hall.
Jason laid on the sofa. Wait here… That was also what she had said previously when she went out to buy medicine for him late at night.
All right. He would wait. He would wait for her to come back…
Grace hurried to the residence’s iron gate. There was a street lamp beside the iron gate, which happened to shine on the deliveryman’s bewildered face.
The delivery man did not expect to deliver medicine to the entrance of such a big mansion.
“You ordered this? Miss Cummins?” the man asked.
“Yes, it’s me,” Grace replied as she took the medicine from the man. She thanked him before she turned and ran in the direction of the mourning hall.
The deliveryman scratched his head. He glanced at the huge mansion that seemed endless, still a little bewildered.
In Reed Residence’s security room, several security guards
“Oh my God. She got out in one piece?” someone exclaimed.
“Did she order… food?” After all, there was no way to see clearly from the surveillance screen. All they could see was Grace taking a package from the man.
“Young Master Reed did not kick her out, and… is going to eat with her?” Someone was amazed.
Young Master Reed had allowed Grace to move into Reed Residence, so they knew the woman was special to Young Master
Reed.
However, not everyone could enter the mourning hall. Other than the old servant who had been working for the Reed family for decades, only Young Master Reed and Old Master Reed could go
Now, a woman had set foot in it.
When they first watched the woman enter the mourning hall from the surveillance, they joked that she would probably be kicked out soon and that Young Master Reed might kick her out of Reed
Residence tomorrow.
Who knew that the woman had entered and remained there for some time. When she got out, it was to collect her delivery.
What a shock!
Little did Grace know that her status among the Reed Residence security guards had soared. Her only thought was to get back to mourning hall as soon as possible.
Back in the mourning hall, she looked at Jason who was huddled on the sofa. His eyes were closed and there was no color in his pale face, which contrasted sharply with the deep red stain on his lips.
His lips… As she walked closer, she saw a trace of blood on his lips. He probably bit his lips to endure the pain.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Grace said, “Yi… Jason, the medicine is here. Now take it.” As she spoke, she filled a cup of warm water, then unpacked the medicine and took it out according to the directions.
He slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. She… returned, panting just like before. Even though she was afraid of him, disgusted with him, and perhaps even hated him, she did not want him to hurt? At the thought of this, it seemed that even the pain in his body had become much less intense.
Jason cooperated by opening his lips and swallowing the medicine Grace fed him.
Her eyes fell on his lips, and sure enough, there were distinct teeth marks on his lips. He must have been in such severe pain that he bit his lips.
“If you look at me like that again, you’ll make me think you want to kiss me.” Jason’s voice rang.
Grace immediately came to herself, her face turning red all of a sudden. “I just saw that you bit your lip. I didn’t mean anything.”
“It… doesn’t matter if you mean anything else. You can kiss me whenever you want, Sis,” he said. Though his face was still pale and his forehead was still covered with a layer of thin sweat, he did not stammer as he had before.
Grace turned away from looking at Jason’s face to avoid herself from getting any redder.
Her eyes went to the spirit tablet placed on the table in front of
“Do you want to burn any more incense? The current one is nearly burnt out,” said Grace. Generally speaking, the burning of the incense could not be broken until the worship was over.
Tonight… Looking at the burning incense and candles, as well as offerings of food and fruits, he should be worshipping his father.
Jason heard this and made a gesture to stand up, but Grace quickly pressed on his shoulder and said, “Don’t move, I’ll do it.”
With that, she went to the table, picked up the incense, and leaned close to the candle to light it. Then, she held the incense.
as she looked at the man in the black and white photo before bowing three times. She put it in the incense burner.
Jason’s eyes seemed to flicker with surprise. For a moment, he looked at the woman in front of him in awe.
He did not expect her to bow to his father. He could see some of her profile from his point of view. He could not see her face very well, but he could feel that she was serious with the three bows.
Did his father… see her? This was the woman he liked, and later he would tie this woman to his side. He would make her inseparable from him and make her as dependent on him as fish was on the water.
He would not repeat his father’s mistake.
After putting in the incense, Grace turned around and caught Jason’s eyes. She immediately felt a little awkward. “Well… Is that a photo of your mother?” she asked as she was at a loss for words.
However, she felt a little regretful after finishing the question!
During the time they had spent together, she knew that his mother was someone he did not want to talk about.
She was thinking of hurrying on to another topic when he replied,
“Yes.”
She was stunned as she had not expected an actual answer.
“Do you think she’s pretty?” he asked suddenly.
Grace gave a nod. To be fair, his mother was beautiful and her beauty was absolutely impressive.
“Yes, she is. My father loved her so much that he took her words as imperial edicts. He would do everything in his power to get whatever she wanted,” he said darkly. “However, one day, when the man who could have given anything she wanted ran away from home for her and could no longer give her all those fine things in life, he was nothing but a worthless man to her.”
He had never said these words before, but as he looked at her standing before his father’s spirit tablet, he just naturally said it.
It was as if he could only get the words out of his heart when he was facing her.
“Speaking of which, my father must have seen a lot of women in his day, and there must have been some prettier ones. What a fool he was to give up everything for a woman like that,” muttered Jason.