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.”

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

partially succeeded.

she’d studied and strove to always protect the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the law. And

couldn’t lose.

happened today was

She shuddered.

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

have abused and

‘classmates’ who’d stood by and watched

press charges, they would be

wasn’t a convicted felon. If their families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone actually cared about her or the pain they’d caused

justice was

for a person like her.

You’re

a new day.

over and over again, but deep down,

wasn’t true.

found it hard to bite back the words he

the one hand, he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting

night. If that was the case, well,

sensed

sat back down at the kitchen

worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew back together the uniform

clenched into fists.

hummed some

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. he’d known her, it was obvious the hardships in her life were

sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch, and…

about her was unusually

saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was

year.

one day, such a simple and plain woman would

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