Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
For Maria Martin, she thought of herself as someone who should rightfully lead the upper class life while looking down at Grace and others of her kind. Now that Grace had witnessed her currying up to a fatty, the anger in her heart heightened.
“Maria Martin, do you know her?” the short and chubby man next to Maria Martin asked.
“Yeah. She just came out of jail not too long ago and now works as a road sweeper!” Maria Martin viciously revealed Grace’s identity before looking at the manager. “Since when does Royal Court allow even a road sweeper to dine here?”
Jason’s back was facing Maria Martin, so she did not see him.
Unfortunately, the manager could!
Right now, he was trembling in fear and wished that he could chase Maria Martin out of the restaurant right away.
‘So what if she just came out of jail or if she is a road sweeper. As long as Young Master Reed wants to bring her in for a meal, even a beggar can eat here.
“It is not up to you to decide who can come in to dine at our restaurant. I hope that you will apologize to this lady here!” the manager said to Maria Martin.
Maria Martin wanted to explode in a rage that instant. She was supposed to apologize to Grace? What a joke!
“Don’t you want to keep your job?” She spat angrily before leaning pitifully at the middle-aged man next to her. “Mr. Grant, this man wants me to apologize to a road sweeper.
How absurd!”
Mr. Grant was about to say something for Maria Martin when he heard a crisp and cold voice. “What is the big deal with an apology? Even if you need to kneel, you should do it.”
Mr. Grant was flabbergasted. When he looked up to see who it was, his expression changed.
‘This is… Jason! President of Reed Group!’
Mr. Grant had seen Jason once during a dinner gathering. However, because of the difference in status, he had no way of getting near Jason for a chat.
Mr. Grant had wanted to get near Jason to get acquainted with him, but he was short of the opportunity.
He would never have imagined that he would meet Jason once again during such an occasion. Furthermore… it was obvious based on the current situation that Maria Martin had offended Jason.
Mr. Grant was a man who loved pretty girls, and Maria Martin had been pleasing him very well throughout the times they spent together.
For a beautiful proud princess like her to clamber all over him, it was something that boosted his ego very much!
However, if compared to the potential chance of offending Jason, Mr. Grant would not mind slapping Maria Martin instead!
She was looking for trouble when there was none. Of all people she had to scold, she scolded the person next to Jason!
“Mr… Young Master Reed, it’s just a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!” Mr. Grant quickly explained as beads of sweat formed on his forehead.
“Misunderstanding?” Jason’s cold gaze swept across Mr.
Grant. “If misunderstandings are easily formed in this world, then there are going to be plenty of misunderstandings circulating.”
Mr. Grant’s expression turned bad as his fatty flesh trembled.
Maria Martin looked dumbfounded. Although she did not know who this man was, she knew that he was not a simple character if Mr. Grant was being this careful with his interaction.
At that moment, she noticed that Grace’s hand was interlocked with that man’s.
No matter how big a bimbo Maria Martin was, she knew that she had just committed a great offense.
‘Since when did Grace get to know such a handsome and rich man?’ Jealousy rose within Maria Martin, but soon, she realized that the man looked rather familiar.
It was as if she had seen him somewhere before.
Suddenly, Maria Martin’s eyes lit up. She said, “You’re… the pretty boy that belongs to Grace?”
When that was said out loud, the manager’s expression changed instantly. Mr. Grant nearly fell to the ground, wishing that he did not know such a woman like Maria Martin.
Nobody in the whole of Emerald City dared to say such a thing to Jason unless they were asking for a death wish!
Jason smirked as he looked at Maria Martin, but his gaze was exceptionally cold.
“Maria Martin, what nonsense are you spouting! This is the president of Reed Group, Jason!” Mr. Grant anxiously explained.
Maria Martin widened her eyes in disbelief.
‘This man… is Jason?!
‘Impossible! Why would Jason be together with Grace? The person that Grace killed during that road traffic accident was Jason’s fiancée!’
Maria Martin recalled that before her family fell from grace, there was a time when Greg had bullied Grace at the clubhouse. The person that came to rescue Grace was Jason!
At that time, everyone thought that Greg had merely disturbed the tranquility of Jason, thus Grace was so fortunate to be rescued by Jason. Now when she thought about it… That was no coincidence at all!
Maria Martin suddenly felt that her blood was flowing in a reverse direction. It was as if her blood was going to burst out of her veins.
“But… But Grace…” Maria Martin could not finish her sentence when her eyes met the icy gaze of Jason. She could not speak a word after that.
Horror rose in her heart, and her instincts told her that worse things would await her if she continued to blabber on!
“Maria Martin, quickly apologize to Young Master Reed and this lady!” Mr. Grant rushed her.
Maria Martin looked so humiliated looking at Grace who remained muted.
Apologizing to Grace would be like a slap on her face!
However, she had no choice but to comply regardless of how unwilling she was. She had to comply because the man next to Grace was Jason!
Just when Maria Martin decided to let herself suffer a little and apologize, Jason plainly said, “Then kneel to apologize.”
‘Kneel?!’ Maria Martin’s eyes widened as anger rose within her. “You want me to kneel and apologize to her?”
“So what? Do you think she does not deserve to receive your kneeling?” Jason casually said. “It doesn’t matter what you think. If I say that she deserves it, then she deserves it!”
The expression on Maria Martin’s face kept changing while Mr. Grant kept pushing her to apologize. “Maria Martin, quickly kneel and apologize. Since you’re the one who did a mistake, then apologize sincerely!”
However, there was a problem… If she knelt here, everyone would be able to witness it. How was Maria Martin supposed to live with her head held up high from now on?! A fierce debate was going on within Maria Martin’s heart.
As for Grace, she merely felt that whatever was happening right now was like a bad joke.
She saw that Maria Martin was about to kneel in front of her.
She wanted to avoid it, but a pair of hands was pressing firmly on her shoulders, rendering her motionless.
“Sis, don’t move. She wants to apologize, so let her do it properly,” Jason whispered beside Grace’s ear.
Such an intimate action sent chills running down the manager and Mr. Grant’s spines as fear crept up in their hearts.
It was said that Jason never had any woman beside him all this while. Even with his late fiancée, Jennifer Atkinson, both of them remained courteous toward each other. Nobody ever saw him being so close to another woman before.
Plus, he was demanding justice for a woman in public?
Maria Martin knelt and stuttered as she made her apology. “Grace, it… it is my fault, I shouldn’t have said such things to you. I… I’ll never do that again. Please forgive me!”