My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 76

Grace took the check and left the store with Lina.

There was cursing and muttering and she could only imagine how the store personnel would gossip-and she didn’t care.

She’d meant to get under their skin. It was petty and

unnecessary and she’d only wanted Sean to feel shameful for

a few brief seconds.

But he’d called her bluff and carried through with it.

And Sean wasn’t a wealthy man by accident. He was very stingy-when he wasn’t trying to outdo himself for

appearances.

“Grace, don’t you think it’s a little weird?” As soon as they walked out of the store, Lina said, “Sean wrote you a huge check and gave it to you without hesitation. Lily was present too! Isn’t he afraid his ‘fiancee’ will lose her shit?”

“It is quite strange,” Grace said neutrally.

“Uh, does Sean still like you?” Lina ventured.

Grace shrugged. “No, I don’t think that’s it.”

“Grace, he just spent an obscene amount of money on you.”

“True. But I don’t think it’s affection that prompted it. I don’t even think it’s ego. Sean’s too cheap for that. I think it’s fear.

It seems that he is afraid that I will get mad at Zoe and then

do harm to the Stevens Family,” Grace voiced her intuitive

speculations.

bit ridiculous. “Isn’t he thinking too much into

hand to look at the check she was holding.

that anyway? Are you going to tear it up?” she asked. “Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see you spend it on yourself. It’s the least that piece

taking that to the

“No. I won’t.”

shook her head. “You’re just going

incredulous.

up? I’ll just donate it to someone who needs it,” Grace answered and carefully put the check into her

beamed. “That’s more like it!” Then she sighed. “That prick will probably use

and just like that, the painfulness of that encounter

for a while, and shared several small dishes in the mall food court. It was so much like old times! Grace could almost imagine that the last few years hadn’t happened, and it was just the two of them catching up after a long week

was no undoing the

stronger and more self-aware, she didn’t resent it. If not for everything in

back,”

had saved half her food and the full baklava dessert for Jay. She was eager to

to enter the escalator to the underground parking lot, they saw

these people were like a bad rash that just wouldn’t go away!

anger, disbelief and good old-fashioned hatred. They all stopped talking when they

suggested that

followed Lina’s lead, lifting her head and keeping

shook her

you so much as say another word to her

“You’d punish me!?

walked quicker toward the escalator and was about to pass by them, Zoe suddenly stretched out her

and

and quickly ran to the side of

the emergency

so, it was already too late. Grace had rolled down a lot