My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

Chapter 1

Prologue

The day Grace was released from prison, two men were waiting for her.

One of them sent her to prison, and the other one convicted her.

The snow was very heavy that day. They looked like two snowmen waiting outside the prison.

Grace vowed in her heart, she’d make everyone pay their price.

***

“Grace, get yourself a job and be a good person out there.”

The prison guard opened the gate and told her so.

Grace nodded. Through the iron bar on the prison window, she saw two black cars parked out of the gate. Waiting for her.

They were Jacob’s Benz G-Wagon and Sean’s Porsche Panamera.

Heavy snow has caused total chaos on the roads. Jacob and Sean were standing quietly in front of their cars.

Sean held a black umbrella and stared at the gate. Jacob kept looking at his watch.

One of them was Grace’s ex-boyfriend, and the other one was her childhood best friend.

How affectionate and caring they looked! If they hadn’t sent Grace to prison and told the other inmates to “take good care” of her, maybe she would be moved to tears.

Five years ago, Grace went to confront Lily Atkinson, and her sister Jennifer Atkinson was also there. In an unfortunate turn of events, Jennifer Atkinson died. Although it was a terrible accident, the court still decided to sentence Grace to three years in prison.

Lily dragged her sister’s lifeless body out of the car and called the police. Sean arrived soon after.

“Sean, your girlfriend killed my sister!” Lily sat on the ground and cried out.

Sean’s first reaction was to push Grace down onto the ground in case she ran away.

But Grace was already too weak to resist because she’d also been hurt. What’s more… she was pregnant with Sean’s baby.

“How could you be so evil?!” When Jacob rushed over, his eyes were blood shot as he questioned Grace.

Before Grace could explain to the two most important men in her life, she was handcuffed by the police.

In court, Lily’s lawyer was Jacob, Grace’s childhood best friend, another blow to her heart.

Jacob blamed everything on Grace. She was convicted of reckless driving and involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to three years of imprisonment.

“Grace, you deserve this. People have to pay for their mistakes,” he said.

When Grace first got into prison, she was beaten constantly. She was beaten in places without security cameras and had her nails pulled out. She was yanked by the hair and pressed into toilets. Her back was always being kicked, and it was bruised all the time.

They even broke the bones in her finger, one by one.

At first, Grace didn’t know why. She was always stubborn and didn’t cry when they hit her.

But after a while, Grace found out why they picked on her exclusively. Grace sucked up to one of the female bosses in prison. She would wash her feet, give her massages, and even do her laundry. Finally, she gained the trust of the female boss, and she told Grace why.

“Girl, you poor little thing. Someone paid us to beat you.”

Grace knew who it was then in that instant. Sean.

This was the man who ordered two hundred drones to spell out “I LOVE YOU” in the night sky when he was pursuing her.

He said, “Grace, I will protect you from now on.”

***

Upon seeing their cars outside the prison gates, Grace begged the prison guard to let her leave from the back door, to avoid seeing either of their faces.

Besides, what if they were still angry with her and wanted to take their revenge?

I am nothing compared to them. I can’t afford to provoke them, but at least I can hide. Grace thought to herself.

In a trance, Grace remembered her confrontation with Lily. Lily stood in front of Grace while holding her dog and shouted, “My dog is worth 70,000 dollars. How much is your grandfather’s life worth?”

When Grace was three, her mother died and her father remarried. He abandoned her so her grandfather raised her all by himself.

Her grandfather worked night and day collecting junk and empty bottles for recycling.

When Grace was in junior high, she moved to the city from the countryside and lived in a small rental apartment. Her grandfather told her that they could make more money in the city because there was more junk to collect.

But Grace knew the true reason why her grandfather wanted her to go to school in the city.

The children in the city had shiny hairpins, and Grace wanted them too.

Grace’s grandfather once stood outside a small accessories store for hours, then he finally went inside to buy the expensive shiny hairpin for Grace.

the school offered financial aid to students from poverty-stricken families, Grace’s teacher Mrs. Green helped her apply for it. That’s when Grace met Jacob, Mrs. Green’s son, whom

Grace with her

was very grateful to Mrs. Green, but he didn’t

garden while Jacob and Grace did their homework and played in the

is so beautiful

We don’t deserve him,” he rubbed his

didn’t even

back to the countryside. He didn’t let Grace go back

Grace saw him begging friends for money to

vowed in her heart that she would grow up to be a top lawyer so that her grandfather would never have to work

best grandfather that anyone could have asked for,

***

Stevens family. Suddenly, her father wanted to be in her life again, all because of who she was

nice young

the day she took Sean to meet

big girl should have beautiful dresses. My pretty Grace should not

junk to make money behind

times. He was getting too

a winter three

unleashed dog in the

on the spot

dog. She said it

Due to a fracture of the cervical spine and spinal damage, he became

of money to the hospital, so

girlfriend? You didn’t get money from him, so you

because of your idiot grandfather, I should be the

your grandpa are just a bunch of country bumpkin.

didn’t hold back. She really couldn’t. So, she slapped

was Lily’s sister, saw this and came

two girls as she was pregnant and weak, so she got into her car and wanted to drive

Her grandfather

that at least one of them

the side of

her grandfather had

paralyzed for life, and he didn’t want to be

was lying on the ice-cold ground and

save either her grandfather…

was locked up in prison,

whispered to Grace, “My dog has always been

anything, he only followed his owner’s orders, and his owner’s heart… was

Grace because she

for the death of her grandfather. Lily would’ve never harmed her grandfather if

that her grandfather came back to life, and he told her how she was a good girl. Grace knew then it was just a dream because she was not a

could turn back time, she wouldn’t want any shinny hairpins or any nice dresses, and she most certainly

thing she wants is just to have her grandfather

***

then did she realize that she had been dreaming of

down at her

broken bones, her hands would never look or feel the

back, but the prison doctors hadn’t gone out

she had residual pain.

many fine movements that

more especially when

flexed her hands and breathed

It’s okay. You’re okay.

a

repeated the mantra as she stood up and resumed

memories threatened to

than just her

future. Her boyfriend.

everything she’d cared about was

killed was the daughter of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the country. What’s more, she was the fiancée of Jason Reed—the most powerful man

It’s okay. You’re okay.

a new

You don’t need anybody.

finished mopping

bright-colored work suit of a sanitation worker with her long hair

on the wall. Her delicate face was

you were to only look at her face, you would think she was a student who had just graduated from college. But gone was

how cruel the world

that stared back at her were old, far older, and duller

sighed and rolled the cleaning supplies toward the

few

hadn’t meant to drift

an eye on the time, she moved quickly and efficiently to clean

she left

was about to leave, she heard a colleague watching the news on her

is engaged to Sean Stevens! What a lucky girl Lily is! As a superstar and a daughter of a rich and powerful family, now she is going to marry into the wealthy Stevens family