My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 49

Grace shook her head to clear it.

This was her ‘brother’ and he likely didn’t mean what he’d said the

way she was taking it.

It was an innocent question. She shouldn’t read too much into it.

This attraction she felt…was one-sided and couldn’t go anywhere. If she crossed that line, she’d only stand to lose him. He deserved better than that.

They both did.

She swallowed hard and averted her gaze.

“Of course, I would be sad over you. I care for you deeply.”

“As you did for Sean before you learned the truth about him?”

Actually, she felt more for Jay. But she couldn’t tell him that. If he misinterpreted her meaning, there would be no putting the genie back in the bottle.

And the last thing she wanted was any awkwardness or distance between them.

She valued his friendship too fiercely.

Grace cleared her throat and said, “I can love my younger brother

but that isn’t the same kind of love.”

“Oh?”

Jason wasn’t letting her off the hook, and the whole conversation

was making her want to cringe. “It’s two different feelings. I thought loving someone was forever and irreplaceable. I even… thought that lovers could live and die together.”

a romantic notion,

of fairytales, 3D projector billboards, and living happily ever after. He had no experience with such things. His

love… to live or die together. It

all-encompassing. All empowering.

suddenly want to experience such a thing? And

this mean for him?? Had he fallen in

course not.

kind of

it was honest

for her. There was a … sentimental attachment, yes.

and realized that he also had

of being next to her. He wanted

be there when she came home,

He acknowledged that he liked being near her, and he was okay with it. Why else

with enjoying someone

was really honest with himself, he was falling into deeper

fall in love… he couldn’t have done

to himself long ago to never fall in love with any

sad, right?” The gentle tone of her voice resounded in his

her blushing cheeks and a faint smile. He’d give her the out, for now, and fall back into their comfortable

you sad,” he said. Because that was the answer she wanted to hear. And he meant it. Protecting her for life was as easy as lifting a finger for him. Hell, his accountants could probably find some tax write-off for

her eyes so earnest

pang of unease.

to make her sad, yet… when she one day discovered that he was

Reed, President of Reed Corporation, how would she react to the lie he’d been

was likely an understatement.

walls all around her and he’d

if

day. After she finished sweeping the streets with Claire, they returned to the Sanitation Center for their lunch break. However, she noticed that her colleagues were giving her sidelong glances one at a time. Some glances were looks of curiosity, while others were filled

were pointing at her as they whispered

walking toward her from the supply closet, who then pulled her aside and quietly asked, “Grace,