My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

“Are you hungry?”

His dark eyes studied her and he tilted his head. “What?”

When he still didn’t reply, she wrung her hands together. “I’ll get you something to eat.”

Grace moved to the tiny stove and threw some noodles and eggs into the pot to make a simple bowl of noodles for him. She didn’t have any meat, but she chopped what vegetables she had and added them too.

She set the tiny table and poured them both a glass of water from the sink. He moved cautiously to take a seat when she set the bowls down.

“Eat, but don’t eat too fast. It’s quite hot,” she said.

She didn’t mean to treat him like a child, but his presence made her nervous even as there was something incredibly calming about him.

He lowered his head and ate his noodles quietly. Grace also stared at him in silence.

Normally, she’d come home and hate the feeling of being alone, confined in a tiny space. For some reason, the loneliness that she’d usually feel seemed to have disappeared. Could it be due to the presence of another person in the room?

After he had finished eating, Grace cleaned up the plates. “I usually sleep with the lights on. I hope you don’t mind,” she said. Ever since she was released from prison, she had gotten into the habit.

“That’s fine.”

Grace took her pajamas into the bathroom and shut the door to brush her teeth and change. Was it weird having a man alone beside where she’d sleep? Yeah. Probably.

But she didn’t feel triggered by his presence of fearful.

If he’d wanted to hurt her, he wouldn’t have defended her on the street.

When she exited and lay down on the bed, he took his position on the floor.

The room was silent save for the sound of the heater. If she listened hard enough, she could hear each breath he took.

It was a steady rhythm, peaceful even.

Grace closed her eyes and focused on sleeping. This was her routine every night because it was almost impossible for her to relax. Even being out of jail, at night she would always dream of her time in prison.

She would be beaten, shamed, and abused… and every finger would burn with the pain of being broken and the nails being torn off…

She’d wake up screaming, fingers curled, terrified, and heart pounding.

However, oddly, that didn’t happen tonight.

She slept until sunrise and was not visited by her usual nightmares.

As she awakened, she rolled over to look at the figure lying on the ground beside her bed.

Still here.

Was it because of him? Because she was no longer alone in this room?

of bed, squatted down, and placed

was real, and not something from her

she really had taken a strange man into her

that he was already awake. His beautiful eyes were fixed on

that… If you don’t have anywhere to go,

in a hurry, but after she had

widened with

you don’t want to, just pretend I didn’t say anything,” she added,

opened and he spoke quietly. “Do you want

this had been said by some other man, it

assumed he meant it to mean his

and a smile slowly formed on

Although it

***

go back to work. When she left money on the table for him to buy himself some food, he sat staring at the twenty-dollar

gone, the room

somewhat nervous energy filled the space. He rolled up the quilt that he’d slept on and then washed out the coffee

snoop a bit. But he didn’t want

he finally left the apartment, there

they respectfully greeted

go,” Jason

black Bentley was parked in front of him. Jason got into it and looked at the twenty-dollar bill in his hand. It had been many years since someone had given him money like

in the rearview mirror. “The woman who was with you last night is a contract worker of the Sanitation Service Center. She started renting her current residence here a month ago, and was just released from prison two months

“Prison?”

reckless driving and killing Jennifer Atkinson. She was sentenced to three years of imprisonment and had her lawyer’s license revoked,” Terrence said

his expression bland. “Grace…”

a good political marriage candidate, he thought that if he had to marry

who would’ve thought that Jennifer would end up dying in

his past relationship with Jennifer, how

that twenty-dollar bill

hand, brought him into her home, and said

you can

Then… “Sir, are you

***

work, Grace got a call from her father asking her to go home. He said that since she had been released from

died when she was

only a few months after mom died, and her stepmother gave birth to another daughter,

was always clear that Grace’s father favored his “new” family, which led to her being sent to live with her maternal grandmother in the countryside. Grace’s grandmother cared for

and at the top of her class, her father finally warmed to her. He eventually started to show off to others that he had

even if only out of pretense. Even her half sister

been the one act that had finally made her worthy of love in her family’s eyes. She knew it was only because he was the heir of the Stevens Corporation. However,

To be loved.

car accident, she realized that everything

home, she stepped into her father’s

of the three of them. Not a

Same couches and tables.

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