Chapter 25

On the way back with Jason, Grace suddenly said, “Jay, do you know Sean?”

“The president of the Stevens Group?” he asked.

“You know him too then. Yes, he’s the guy who’s been in the news recently. Well, I suppose it’s more Page Six gossip than anything really newsworthy. He’s the groom in the marriage. between the Stevens family and Atkinson family, and… he’s also…” she paused and hesitated for a moment before saying, “my ex-boyfriend.”

Jason also stopped walking and stood quietly by Grace’s side, looking at her.

Perhaps some words or some emotions had been bottled up in her heart for too long, so she could not help but want to spit

them out.

“Don’t you think it is incredible that someone like me was once that person’s girlfriend?” She laughed bitterly. “At that time, I was still a new lawyer who had just graduated, and I thought that he and I would get married. But then there was the accident. I swear to God, I wasn’t drinking. I rarely drink and when I do, I never drive! Then they charged me with vehicular manslaughter. Sean broke up with me. I got sentenced to three years, I supposed I was fortunate to get out in three years for good behavior…”

“What was it like being in jail?”

for a while and did not continue to talk about the nightmare-like situation in the prison. She shook her head. “I … can’t.”

watched her

knowing what had happened all those years ago, he could see the scars. The bones that broke that hadn’t been set correctly. Her

It’s all in the past.” She tried

told him what transpired while she’d been incarcerated, but the information on her

he had not felt anything. He’d read and processed the accounts as

to hear her talk about it-or more appropriately, be incapable of talking about it, of dredging up those memories… it had something tightening in his

had experienced? When had

then on, I told myself not to trust the so-called love between a man

can love you one day, but tomorrow, you can be thrown away like

the sentence by kicking a pebble

wouldn’t throw you away,” he suddenly said.

“I know,

dating, and I don’t think about who I’m going to marry or have

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