Chapter 80

When she said his name Jason’s whole body stiffened.

“Do you hate Jason Reed?” he murmured.

She sighed and said, “Everyone in this City knows him. When

I had the car accident, Jennifer Atkinson was Jason’s fiancée. So, of course, I was not going to get out of it easily. How many people want to curry favor with him? How many people think that by hurting me it’ll gain them favor with him?”

Grace’s eyes took on a faraway look. “Who knows… maybe

if that accident had involved someone else. Someone other than Jennifer Atkinson, I could have won the lawsuit. Would I have been spared from being in jail for three years and

experienced all those things? Maybe.” Her eyes were so earnest when they met his. “I didn’t drink and drive, Jay. I

wouldn’t do that. I still can’t understand how the evidence

could corroborate that sort of thing.”

Jason knew the ins and outs of the case intimately.

She was not angry or sad, but the faint self-degradation she showed made him feel very guilty.

Perhaps half of her pain was because of him.

He squatted in front of her, staring at her bent hands. “It I had

known that you would suffer so much, I would have protected you three years ago.”

was something that had come from the

hated thinking that this woman had suffered because of him.

He wasn’t cruel. And Grace had been tortured for no

he might

tormentors.

thought sickened

But now that he knew her. That he believed her when she said it was all an accident…

patted his hand. “Alright, let’s not talk about this.” Grace smiled again and lifted her hand to rub

been doing this more

and paused beside them, she shifted

awkwardly. “I, uh, got the medicine,”

two other prescriptions which we can fill

Lina,” Grace

go get the car from the

to the entrance and wait

“Alright,” Jason agreed.

slid his arms beneath her

what are you

be obvious, no?”

don’t need to

boot they give you won’t suffice. You should probably have

intended to carry her back into the hospital

fine. I just

agreed. “That means

simply, as if it

you to carry me like this!”

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