Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
Kyla Corbyn gave a wry smile. “Maybe it’s because I’ve been to prison too, so I felt compa**ion.” Putting herself in her shoes, she could tell that Grace really wanted a job.
“Compa**ion…” Brian muttered thoughtfully. After a while, he said to Kyla Corbyn, “All right, I’ll help you. I won’t tell Martin Weiss that I’ve seen you, but I can’t guarantee that no one else.
will tell him.”
Even this guarantee was enough for Kyla Corbyn.
“Thank you, Mr. Hart. Thank you…” Kyla Corbyn thanked him.
again and again. She seemed to understand vaguely that maybe it was her ‘compa**ion’ that made the entertainment industry’s prince agree to her request.
The prince might really like Grace… However… Kyla Corbyn had a look of worry in her eyes. Was this good or bad for
Grace?
After all, she had been a cautionary example. Having spent time with Grace these days, she saw her more as a friend than an employee.
Grace’s fate might change if she was involved with the prince, but it was hard to predict her future happiness.
Tony Cummins got a call from his landlord around noon, saying that someone had entered the room he rented yesterday. He was immediately alarmed and hurriedly asked, “Who was it? I’ve rented the room. How can you open the door without my permission?”
The landlord was angered by his question. “You’ve got a lot of nerve to say so. I rented the room for you to live in, yet you put a cinerary casket in it! Besides that, if it weren’t for you, the police station wouldn’t have come to inspect my house and ordered me to reform it. I’m calling to tell you that I need to reform my house and I’m not refunding the rest of your rent and deposit!”
The remark infuriated Tony Cummins. When he tried to question the landlord, the landlord had already hung up.
“What’s the matter? Did something happen to the cinerary casket?” Melinda Riley asked her husband immediately.
“The landlord said that someone went there last night and took the cinerary casket!” said Tony Cummins.
“They took it? What about our 50 million dollars? Without the cinerary casket, that wench won’t give us 50 million dollars!” Melinda Riley was worried now. Suddenly, she thought of another possibility. “Speaking of which, she must have had someone taken the cinerary casket away…”
Frowning, Tony Cummins simply picked up his phone and dialed Grace’s number.
Moments later, Grace answered the phone. “Yes?”
“Grace, I’ve thought about it. After all, we’re father and daughter. No matter what, we’re still related. If you really can’t give me the 50 million dollars we agreed on yesterday all at once, you can give half of it first. I’ll tell you where your mother is buried. You’ve hit it off with Jason, haven’t you? The money shouldn’t be a problem for him,” said Tony Cummins. Although the cinerary casket was gone, he still wanted to try and blackmail her.
If it was not his daughter who had taken the cinerary casket last night, then he could make do with 25 million dollars. He could just buy a cinerary casket and put false ashes in it to trick her.
What he did not see was Grace’s disappointed face on the other end of the phone.
This was her father, and he was using her mother’s ashes to get money from her. Was he really taking advantage of her mother’s death?
“It’s all right. I got Mom’s ashes yesterday, and I’ve already buried her,” replied Grace.
Tony Cummins hurriedly snapped at that. “It was you! What right do you have to break into my rented house and take your mother’s ashes? You even buried her? I’m your mother’s husband. How can she be buried without my consent?”
“So you’re aware that you’re her husband? I don’t think my mother would have been willing to acknowledge you as her husband if she was still alive,” replied Grace.
“You… Is this how you talk to your own father? You’d better tell me where you buried your mother right now, or I’ll have a lawyer sue you. Even Jason can’t help you. Don’t think because you’re with Jason now that he will take you seriously. He’s just fooling around with you. Unlike Evelyn, she’s Brian’s official girlfriend…”
However, Tony Cummins’s words were cut short by another voice saying, “Oh? Why don’t you try and see if I can help her or not?”
The icy baritone caused Tony Cummins to almost choke on his own spit and drop the phone he was holding.
Was that… Jason’s voice?!
Jason was with his eldest daughter? Did he overhear their phone conversation?
“Well… Well…” Before Tony Cummins could finish his sentence, the call on the other end of the phone had been cut off.
Tony Cummins could only stare at his phone.
“What happened?” Melinda Riley asked quickly. He had not put the call on speaker, so she did not hear what Jason said.
“What else? That girl is going places! She has Jason to protect her!” growled Tony Cummins. His eldest daughter had Jason as her backup, but he could not get anything out of it. That was what bothered him the most.
He probably should have been nicer to her if he knew that she was this capable, but there was no use for Tony Cummins to regret it now.
After hearing her husband’s words, Melinda Riley could not help but scorn. “How did Jason take a fancy to an ex-convict like her? It was Jason’s fiancée she killed!”
“How would I know?” grumbled Tony Cummins.
“Hey, she’ll probably be kept a secret no matter what,” said Melinda Riley. “Unlike Evelyn who is official… Evelyn can marry into the Hart family. Wasn’t it Evelyn who gave us the money for this trip?”
Tony Cummins felt a little better at the thought of his youngest daughter. He could only pin his hopes on his youngest daughter now.
Jason handed the phone back to Grace with a fierce look in his eyes. “What do you want me to do to your father?”
He asked her with a smile, but she understood the fierce look in his eyes.
Grace knew that whatever she wanted to do to her father, he would do it for her once she told him.
However… “It’s alright. It’s good for me and him to end up like this,” said Grace. What her father had done was only to kill the last shred of affection in her heart.
She thought her father would at least have some affection left for her mother. After all, her parents married for love, and her mother married her father at his worst.
Now she realized that it was only her own wishful thinking.
Time was the worst of them all. No matter how in love they were, not a bit was left after so many years.
Jason could not help frowning. She lowered her eyes. There was a hint of sarcasm and sorrow on her gentle face. It was as if something was slipping through her body and he could not grasp it no matter what.
Suddenly, almost unconsciously, he held her in his arms, trying to hold on to her. Now that she was warming up to him, he did not want to let her go.
Grace stood still for a moment, feeling herself falling into his wide embrace. A moment later, he held her body with his hands so tightly that she was almost out of breath.
“Jason…” She could not help but cry.
Her voice made him tremble, and he loosened his arms.
slightly. However, he still held her in his arms and did not let
“Call me Jay. I love hearing you call me Jason,” he muttered. With a touch of hoarseness, his elegant voice traveled through her eardrum and crept into her heart.
She pursed her lips and seemed a little hesitant, but at last, she uttered, “Jay.”
There was a smile on the corners of his mouth. “That sounds so good.”
She stared at the smile on his face incredulously. A simple cry from her could make him happy and satisfied.
She could not help thinking that he… really did like her. However, how long could this affection last?
Her mother must have thought that her father loved her very much when she married him. However, there was not a shred of affection left for her mother in his heart.
What had been an unforgettable love was now only a joke as time pa**ed.
Had she not previously been in a loving relationship with Sean. Stevens too? She thought she had found someone worthy of her life, but he just turned away and kept his distance from her!
“Do you think I’m just fooling around with you too?” Jason asked suddenly.
Grace was stunned, not knowing how to answer him all of a sudden.