My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 79

Jason strode into the hospital room. His gaze swept the space, taking in the machines beeping, the x-rays mounted on the wall and the physician standing quietly at Grace’s bedside.

“You’re here!” Grace said.

“There was a traffic jam on the highway, or I would’ve been here sooner,” Jason replied.

She smiled. “You arrived faster than I expected.” She picked at

the bedsheets. “I hate that I inconvenienced you…”

Jason moved to the opposite side of the hospital bed to engage the physician directly.

Lina returned to the room and handed Grace a small cup of water. “One second you were in the ER, the next you were gone. Sorry, Grace. It took me a minute to devise where they’d moved you to.”

“I’m fine,” Grace said easily. She sipped the water.

“Doctor, how is she?” Lina asked. “Is my friend all right? She was knocked down several steps by someone on the

escalator.”

Grace watched Jason as Lina relayed the events. She wasn’t

too happy with her friend for saying all of that. A muscle in Jason’s jaw started to tick.

“The injury is not too serious,” the doctor said. “Thankfully,

there is no internal hemorrhaging or any signs of TBI-

traumatic brain injury.”

Lina sighed loudly in relief.

“What did you discover?” Jason asked in a deadly calm voice.

Dr. Craigge turned back to him. “There are some slight fractures. We’ll put her foot in a brace, and she should stay off

it for a few weeks to allow the bones around her ankle to heal,

but… Dr. Craigge hesitated.

“But what?” Jason asked in a frigid tone.

Grace trembled.

her hands. “You sustained multiple broken bones and fractures. Many of these injuries to your fingers did not set properly, and at this stage, it’s unlikely given the bone fusion and time lapsed

any positive change.”

lowered her gaze.

of areas on your hands, arms, feet

trauma.”

well who

seemed like he was digging for information. He probably thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by

had come in the form of retaliation and on

wealthy families.

older injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his voice

to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted.

given the traumas and how they healed, there will

Miss Cummins had sustained

the time, the

now…”

“But I don’t think

still young now, so

this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the

kind of complications?”

future, you may often feel pain in your joints.

serious, you may not be able to lift heavy things with your hands, and you might

time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons to reset her bones. Her fingers

the attacks had been painful, and the time spent recovering from them, even

what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating injuries over time… it all made sense.

there any way to cure it?” Lina’s voice trembled

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to

significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and minerals. Also, you have to take good care of yourself. You can’t

back and was lost to her

years, it seemed all she had known was abuse. Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by her own sister, by ‘friends’ of Sean and even his sister and

ever know

stay a few days and we can monitor her,” Dr. Craigge was

I want to go

listen to the

“I’ll take it easy and rest. Please. I just

a barely perceptible

said. “Please work with Dr. Craigge to determine any medicines Grace will need and what follow up treatments he recommends.”

Jay