Chapter 20

Grace looked at the back of her right hand, at the spot where Maria had stepped on today.

“Today, when I was working, I accidentally hit it. It’s nothing,” she said casually, not wanting him to worry.

“Is that so?” Jason stared fixedly at Grace. “Sister, if someone bullies you, just tell me and I will stand up for you.”

He would make those people pay the price. In the future, no one would dare bully her.

For a moment, her heart pounded quickly. It was as if he knew everything. Was he …testing her? She didn’t want to lie. Not to him. But she didn’t want him to worry either.

Especially when he couldn’t help her.

He was poor and broken down like her. And if he were to take on one of those privileged assholes, it’d only end badly for him.

And she wouldn’t let that happen.

“I can protect myself,” she said.

“What if you can’t?” he asked.

If that were the case, it would still be useless to tell him, but

Grace did not say that. She didn’t want to prolong this

conversation.

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“Don’t you want me to protect you?” He stared at her with his dark and deep eyes.

She bit her lip. “You already saved me once, remember? Now it’s my turn to try and protect you. And I’ll try my best not to let others bully us.”

There was a flash in his eyes, but he did not say anything in the end. Instead, he simply replied faintly, “Okay.”

been waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and fears out of her and right down the

partially succeeded.

the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there

couldn’t lose.

happened today was

She shuddered.

that man on the second floor hadn’t intervened? What then?

abused and drowned

Maria and Mia, two ‘classmates’ who’d stood by and watched the assault…

press charges, they

enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her

justice was

never come for a person like her.

okay. You’re

is a new day.

and over again,

wasn’t true.

to bite back the words he wanted

His ‘sister’ was hellbent

physical sickness from the other night. If that was the

him because he’d sensed that was

down at the kitchen table.

in the dim light of the kitchen

hands clenched into fists.

some

exposure to the wind and sun, her skin was not fair at all. Even though she had a comely appearance, she still looked weathered, and given all that had befallen her in the short time.

was sewing her clothes,

quiet and elegant way about her was unusually

he moved in, he seldom saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable. The women he

year.

one day, such a simple and plain

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