Filed to story: My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict Novel by Anastasia Marie
“Oh no! I’m sorry to have stepped on you.” Although Zoe was apologizing to her, she was smiling happily. She refused to remove her foot from Lina’s hand.
Lina looked at her colleagues and then at Zoe before standing up suddenly.
Since Lina had stood up, naturally, she lifted her hand. Zoe was caught unaware and she fell to the ground. The chair that she had been sitting on fell on her and hit the leg of hers that was on its way to recovery.
Zoe cried out in pain. When the rest of them saw her, they went over to her immediately to help her up.
“Lina, don’t you want this job anymore? How can you treat Miss Stevens in this manner?!” the director reprimanded Lina angrily.
Lina sneered, “You’re right. I don’t want this job anymore. I have had enough of it. I’m merely earning a salary, not selling myself to the design research institute as a slave. Why should I allow myself to be treated in this manner?!”
Zoe said angrily, “Do you think you can get off scot-free by resigning? I will sue you for inflicting injuries on me!”
“Go ahead. I will sue you for deliberately hurting me too! I will go to the hospital to get an injury assessment report right away!” Lina said as she waved her injured hand before Zoe.
Zoe was being presumptuous, but Lina was even more aggressive than her.
Lina was fuming with anger. Since Zoe could not deal with Grace, she had chosen to attack her friend!
“Listen up. Do you think Jason will back you up just because. he’s backing Grace up? Stop dreaming! Ho! He’s just toying with her feelings. She has herself to blame for killing sister Jennifer. Do you think Jason would fall for someone who killed his fiancée?!”
The minute Zoe made that comment, Lina was stunned.
“Jason… and Grace?” “What do you mean by that? Why would Jason back Grace up? What do you mean by saying that he’s toying with her feelings?” Lina asked Zoe as she stepped forth,
staring at her.
Zoe realized that she had let the cat out of the bag. Her Big Brother had instructed her not to tell anyone about it.
“I… I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Zoe said as she got to her feet. She leaned on her crutch and left hastily with her nurse.
The director immediately went after her, trying to appease her.
The rest of the colleagues started to blame Lina, but she took no notice of them. She was thinking over Zoe’s words.
“Have Jason and Grace gotten together? If that were the case, Grace would have told me about it!
“Moreover, Grace is working in the Sanitation Service Center and her life is mundane. She couldn’t have met Jason.”
After Grace had gotten out of prison, the only man that she had come into contact with was Jay, whom she had found on the streets.
When Jay’s name flashed through Lina’s mind, she froze suddenly.
“Jay… Jason…
“Could it be… Is this possible? Could such a thing happen? If Jay is Jason Reed, why was he pretending to be homeless and staying by Grace’s side?
“What’s his motive?”
Lina’s mind was in turmoil.
Grace was able to walk on her own the following day.
She was not as weak as she had been on the first day. Her phone rang from time to time with calls from relatives on her mother’s side.
As for their purposes, there were all kinds. Some of them were begging for forgiveness for their uncles and hoped that she could withdraw the case. Some of them were asking which big shot had taken her away from the Miller family that day.
After all, there had been so many police cars tightly surrounding the Miller family that all the neighbors around had seen it.
Then, there were some people asking to borrow money from Grace. They said that since she knew a big shot, she should have a lot of money, and it was expected of her to help her relatives.
Grace was speechless. With regards to this “big shot”, even she did not know the true identity of “Jay”.
However, from what these people said, she slowly managed to piece together some things that Jay had not said. She figured out how she had been rescued from the Miller family that night.
Grace left the ward and slowly walked along the corridor. She said to the nurse who was in charge of taking care of her, “You don’t have to follow me. I want to walk around on my own.”” Having other people following her made her feel awkward.
The nurse assented.
The bodyguards who had been guarding the door of the ward didn’t say anything when they saw this scene. After all, since this morning, Grace had already walked along the corridor several times.
When Grace walked by the exit of the stairwell, she happened to see Jay through the glass door. He was standing to one side of the stairwell and making a phone call.
With a cigarette in his hand, he leaned slightly against the corner of the wall. From her position, she could see his back, his elegant neck, narrow shoulders, slender legs, and fitting suit. Even if it was just a casual standing posture, it could make people feel like he was a model in a magazine.
Before that, she had still been thinking that she would save up money to buy a suit for him in the future. She had wanted to see how he looked in a suit, but she had not expected that she would see him wearing a suit under such circumstances.
At this moment, the phone she had brought with her suddenly rang. Grace quickly picked it up and looked at the caller ID. Surprisingly, it was a call from Lina.
“Lina, what’s the matter?” Grace asked.
“Grace, you… are you with Jay now?” Lina had to especially muster up strength when she said the word “Jay”.
“Yes,” Grace replied.
“Then… is he by your side now?” Lina continued, a hint of anxiety in her tone.
“He’s not here,” Grace said. Her eyes were looking at the figure behind the glass door. He was still talking on the phone with his back to her and had not noticed her.
Her eyes moved down and fell to the cigarette between his fingers again. Speaking of which, she had not thought that he would know how to smoke. After all, he had never smoked in front of her.
However, thinking about it, he must be the son of a rich and powerful family. It seemed impossible to think that he wouldn’t know how to smoke.
Moreover, his posture as he held the cigarette inexplicably gave off an indescribable elegance. This was the first time Grace had seen that there was a man who could hold a cigarette in such a handsome manner.