Chapter 25

On the way back with Jason, Grace suddenly said, “Jay, do you know Sean?”

“The president of the Stevens Group?” he asked.

“You know him too then. Yes, he’s the guy who’s been in the news recently. Well, I suppose it’s more Page Six gossip than anything really newsworthy. He’s the groom in the marriage. between the Stevens family and Atkinson family, and… he’s also…” she paused and hesitated for a moment before saying, “my ex-boyfriend.”

Jason also stopped walking and stood quietly by Grace’s side, looking at her.

Perhaps some words or some emotions had been bottled up in her heart for too long, so she could not help but want to spit

them out.

“Don’t you think it is incredible that someone like me was once that person’s girlfriend?” She laughed bitterly. “At that time, I was still a new lawyer who had just graduated, and I thought that he and I would get married. But then there was the accident. I swear to God, I wasn’t drinking. I rarely drink and when I do, I never drive! Then they charged me with vehicular manslaughter. Sean broke up with me. I got sentenced to three years, I supposed I was fortunate to get out in three years for good behavior…”

“What was it like being in jail?”

the nightmare-like situation in the prison. She shook her head. “I … can’t.”

He watched her flex and curl her

he could see the scars. The bones that broke

She tried to

told him what transpired while she’d been incarcerated, but the information on her that Terrence unearthed had made everything clear.

read and processed the accounts as if he were looking at

it-or more appropriately, be incapable of talking about it, of dredging up

about what she had experienced? When had he, Jason, ever

deep breath and continued, “From then on, I told myself not to trust

you one day, but tomorrow, you can be thrown away

sentence by kicking a pebble into

throw you away,” he

“I

continued more cheerfully. “So now I don’t think about dating, and I don’t think about who I’m going to marry or have children with. For me, these are unattainable

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