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.”

hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and fears out of her and right down the drain.

only partially

always protect the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That

couldn’t lose.

was

She shuddered.

on the second floor

that bastard Greg have abused and drowned

‘classmates’ who’d stood

charges, they would be accomplices.

families didn’t have enough money to buy entire

justice

never come for a

okay. You’re okay.

is a new

said it over and over again, but deep down, she knew

wasn’t true.

to bite back the

he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was

other night. If that

because he’d sensed that was

sat back down at the

worked in the dim light of the

clenched into

hummed some nameless

to malnutrition. After three hard years of imprisonment and the recent exposure 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

this moment, she was sewing her clothes, stitch by stitch,

quiet and elegant way about

seldom saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable. The women

year.

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

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