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.”

nothing to do with the game but was something that had come from

hated thinking that this woman had suffered because of him. He was cold, yes, but

Grace

than that he might bestow some

tormentors.

thought sickened him.

the other. But now that he knew her. That he believed her when she said it was all an accident… it opened something in his

not talk about this.” Grace smiled

doing this more and

and paused

got the medicine,” she said

Dr. Craigge included two other prescriptions which

you, Lina,” Grace said.

the car from the

the entrance and wait for me.”

“Alright,” Jason agreed.

slid his arms beneath her

what are you

be

you don’t

probably have crutches.”

back into the hospital room to argue for said

fine. I just

“That means rest

if

for you to

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