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.”

Underneath the hot water, she tried to channel all of those terrible feelings and

only partially succeeded.

she’d studied and strove to always protect the innocent, and yet… what had she learned? That there

couldn’t lose.

today was proof of that.

She shuddered.

man on the second floor hadn’t intervened?

that bastard Greg have abused

who’d stood by and watched the assault…

charges, they would be accomplices.

their families didn’t have enough money to buy entire juries… if anyone actually

seeking justice

for a person like

You’re okay.

is a

over and over again, but deep down, she

wasn’t true.

bite back the words he wanted to say.

he knew why she remained silent. His ‘sister’ was hellbent on protecting him. Which was

from the other night. If that

to mother him because he’d sensed that was

at the

pajamas and she worked in the dim light of the

hands clenched into fists.

hummed some nameless

loosely over her shoulders. Her hair seemed to lack some shine due 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 that had befallen her in the short time. he’d known her, it was obvious the hardships

at this moment, she was sewing her clothes,

and elegant way about

saw women sewing clothes like this. The very notion was laughable. The women he knew wore couture clothes that cost more than Grace would make in

year.

a simple and plain woman

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