Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Jason knew that Grace did not like the dark; even when she went to bed she would always sleep with the lights on.
In the past when they were still staying in a rental house, she was able to sleep with the light off for a while. However, she reverted to the habit of sleeping with the lights on later.
He frowned slightly. Was she not in the room?
However, just as he was about to turn away, he heard muffled crying.
She was there!
There was a sudden pause in his tracks and then his hand reached the wall to turn on the lights. Consequently, light poured into the room.
All Jason could see was a thin figure that was huddled in the corner of the room. She was crouching with her back facing the wall; her face was buried in her knees, and her shoulders were twitching. The low, repressed sobs came from her continuously.
Was she crying?
His black eyes narrowed, and he quickly walked up to her. Crouching down and looking at her, he asked, “What’s the matter? What happened?”
Grace was stunned by his voice. Moving her head slightly, she raised it and looked at him with her misty, almond-shaped eyes.
Her eyes were red and swollen, and she had been crying for some time. Her face was wet with tears, and her fragile and painful expression made Jason’s heart throb with pain.
He seldom saw her cry, but whenever he saw her do so, he felt helpless.
“Tell me, what happened?” It took him a while to find his voice.
She sniffed as she choked, “I… I can’t find where my mother is.
I can’t find… can’t find…”
The tears in her eyes poured out like an overflowing dam as the words came out of her mouth.
When she reached home, she thought long and hard about where her father would move her mother’s grave. A cemetery? Some burial hill?
Even if she wanted to look, she did not know how to.
No matter how many calls she made to her father and stepmother, or Evelyn, no one answered.
She did not know what else she could do. 50 million dollars?
Even if she sold herself, she would not be able to get 50 million dollars!
Her eyes were suddenly fixed on him.
Come to think of it, maybe her father and stepmother had asked her for 50 million dollars because they thought Jason had her back. She did not have 50 million dollars but Jason did.
Jason frowned. He could not understand what she was saying. Was her mother not already dead? What did she mean by she could not find her mother?
“What’s the matter? Explain,” Jason said as he raised his hand and wiped the tears off her face.
Grace’s hand suddenly seized his, a flash of determination in her eyes. “Give me 50 million dollars. If you’ll give it to me, then… I’ll stay with you. I’ll stay no matter how long you want me to stay with you. I’ll do whatever you want me to do!”
If he gave her 50 million dollars, she could find out where her mother’s grave was!
Mom… was like a spiritual sustenance to her.
She had lost so much that she could not stand losing the place to pay respects to her mother! She did not want to lose it.
Jason’s eyes darkened as he stared at Grace. “Do you know what you’re saying?”
“Yes,” She choked, but she did not know how else to get 50
million dollars.
All of a sudden, Jason chuckled. “I don’t want to!”
Grace’s body stiffened as a result, and all of a sudden, she looked like a deflated ball. Even the last gleam in her eyes disappeared.
Yes, of course he would reject her. What made her think that if she stayed with him and granted him everything he asked, he would give her 50 million dollars?
Grace laughed at herself. Was it because she had thought that she was worth that much or because she thought his interest in her was worth 50 million dollars?
Grace lowered her head in silence. Her hand that had been holding Jason’s hand seemed to have lost all its strength as it let go.
Jason looked darkly at Grace and after a moment, stood up and said, “I think you’d better get some rest, Sis. I’ll ask the servant to get you something to eat. Eat before you go to bed.”
With that, Jason walked out of the room and Grace was lef alone in it.
Slowly, Grace’s hands wrapped around herself, and sure enough… she was left alone once more.
It turned out that loneliness and helplessness could really chew up a person’s soul. Even if she wanted to sell herself, it was not an easy task.
Jason went straight to the study and called Terrence, “Look up Grace’s whereabouts today. What the hell made her so upset?”
“All right,” said Terrence. It took him only over an hour to sort things out before he called again to report everything.
“They moved her grave?” Jason frowned a little.
“Yes, Miss Cummins’s father moved Miss Cummins’s mother’s grave a week ago. Miss Cummins went to pay her respects in vain today. The person in charge of the grave sweeping register of the village said that Miss Cummins was very emotional after learning that her mother’s grave had been moved and still insisted on going up the hill. After coming down the hill, she hurried off with her electric bike…”
Terrence went on to inform Jason of Grace’s visit to the
Cummins family’s house and the conversations she had with the neighbors. He also told him that Grace’s call history that day included calls to her father and Evelyn.
“Records show that Miss Cummins later made a total of 38
calls to her family, but no one answered.”
Jason’s face darkened as he heard Terrence’s report.
By then, Jason could guess that the 50 million dollars was the price of knowing the whereabouts of her mother’s grave.
However, she was going to sell herself to him in exchange for the whereabouts of a grave?
This woman… Jason felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
“Where is her mother buried now? Go and find out,” said
Jason.
Terrence acknowledged Jason’s order.
Just then, a knock came from the door of the study. A servant came to report that Grace would not eat anything and would not respond to whatever they said.
“Got it,” Jason answered and began walking toward Grace’s room.
When he entered the room, he saw a plate of food on the short table. Nevertheless, the thin figure was still the same as when he had entered the room earlier.
Jason picked up the plate of food, went up to her, and laid it in front of her. “Sis, if you want to know where your mother is.
buried, you’d better eat this now.”
Grace looked up, her red and swollen almond-shaped eyes wearing an expression of surprise.
What did he mean by that? Did it mean… “Do you know where my mother is buried?”