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.”

she’d been waiting for. Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of

partially succeeded.

the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there were many people above the law. And being innocent

couldn’t lose.

was

She shuddered.

the second

bastard Greg have abused and drowned her?

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

were to press charges, they

to buy entire juries… if anyone

seeking justice was

for a person like

okay. You’re

is a

it over and over again, but deep down,

wasn’t true.

found it hard to bite back the words he wanted to

she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was

was holding back because of his physical sickness from the other night. If that was the case, well,

mother him because he’d sensed that was what she

at the kitchen

over her pajamas and she worked in the dim light of the kitchen lamp to sew back together the uniform shirt that

clenched into fists.

hummed some nameless

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

moment, she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch, and…

and elegant way about her was unusually

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

year.

had never thought that one day, such a simple and plain woman

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