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.

He gestured toward the X-rays of 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

any positive change.”

her

cleared his throat. “I’ve noticed a number of areas on

trauma.”

her lips together. She knew damn well who and what had caused her those

thought her an abused woman. And she had been. Just not by

had come in the form of retaliation

wealthy

the prognosis on the older injuries?” Jason asked carefully. Again, his voice was underlaced with hostility.

hard to say,” Dr. Craigge admitted. “In

and how

complications. Perhaps if Miss Cummins

the conversation

now…”

Grace frowned. “But I don’t think there’s anything

still young now, so the

pain. But injuries like this can play into degenerative issues, so as you age, the complications will

of complications?” Jason

often feel pain in your joints.

have sustained nerve damage or cramping. If it is serious, you may not be able

down at her hands and feet. Her old wounds were from her time in prison. Prisoners were afforded the minimal treatment required by law. There were no gifted surgeons

and the time spent recovering from them,

no doubt, what the doctor said about residual pain and worsening, debilitating

to cure it?” Lina’s voice trembled as

she asked.

the contrary, Grace seemed to be relatively quiet.

to recuperate and eat food that’s high in calcium. Osteoporosis later in life would compound these issues significantly. Eat foods that reduce swelling and inflammation. Take vitamins and

leaned back and was lost to her

Being out of prison, she’d been accosted by

know

can stay a few days and we

to go

should listen to the

take it easy and rest. Please. I just

a barely

medicines Grace will need and

out her arms to Jay and he carefully, gently