My gorgeous wife is an ex-convict (Grace) novel Chapter 47

Chapter 47 

Grace pursed her lips, finding Sean’s offer to be absurd. He…what exactly? Wanted to assuage his guilt by getting her a job? It was his fault she’d been unemployable everywhere else in the city. 

She started to walk away from him. 

“Don’t walk away from me,” Sean said angrily. “I’m still talking to you. Seriously, Grace. I’m already taking a risk by offering to help 

you!” 

“Did anyone ever ask you to take that risk?” Grace asked flatly. “Did you ever hear of too little, too late, Sean? When I needed you most, you abandoned me.” She shook her head.”There is no need for this. Moreover, aren’t you afraid that your fiancee will hear?” 

“Hear about what?” a sharp voice asked. Sean’s eyes widened. “What is it that you’re keeping from me?” 

Sean froze. He released his grip on Grace’s arm immediately and turned to look at Lily, who was walking toward him. 

“It’s nothing,” he said quietly. 

Lily arched a brow. “Hmm.” She swept up to Sean and looped her arm through his. “Sean, darling, why did you stop to talk to this kind of person? Aren’t you afraid that Jason Reed will hear about 

it? You know my sister is the only woman Jason ever loved. Although my sister has been dead for three years, he has never had another woman…” 

Although Lily did not complete her sentence, everyone knew what 

she meant. 

Sean’s face paled when he remembered the Projection Ads that 

had been taken down and Jason Reed’s refusal to attend their 

engagement banquet. 

There were far-reaching effects of angering Mr. Reed. Effects 

neither he nor Stevens Corporation could afford. 

His family reckoned that it was because of Grace that Jason had 

refused to meet them. But now, he didn’t know what to think. 

“Grace, you’re only fit to be a sanitation worker.” Lily smiled 

cruelly. “And you’re so good at it!” 

Grace’s eyes narrowed. She was furious. 

Lily’s recent actions weren’t helping, and for once, Sean wished she would just shut up instead of being so spiteful. 

“Do you think Mr. Reed knows that you’re already out of prison?” She tapped her chin with her free hand. “He made your life a living hell in there, didn’t he?”. 

Grace shuddered. 

“Funny, if he doesn’t know it already, he just might recognize you on the news from our interviews today. Maybe you should think about relocating. I believe that before long, you will no longer be able to survive in this city,” Lily said. With that, she walked away 

with Sean, holding him by the arm. 

Grace watched them leave. 

She took her tools and headed toward a section of the highway, riding on the bicycle provided by the Sanitation Service Center. 

Grace had already buried the feelings that she had had for Sean. Any emotions she had for him, had died long ago. Seeing him. again, while a bit of a surprise, didn’t stir anything in her heart. It 

didn’t even raise much amity. He was just…dead to her. 

She didn’t feel anything for him. And seeing Sean and Lily holding each other intimately, bah. They deserved each other. 

Grace left and went about her work, oblivious to a figure who was 

standing in one corner, witnessing the scene. 

In the news agency, reporter Brian was watching the news about 

Lily’s visit to the Sanitation Service Center to offer her apologies to 

the sanitation workers. 

It wasn’t the kind of fluff piece he wanted to cover, but she’d been 

the city’s darling, and his boss had set him on the story so he 

covered it. 

When he saw a dark-haired woman appearing on the screen, he 

started to frown. He found this woman familiar, but he couldn’t 

remember where he had seen her. 

“Who is this woman? Why does she look so familiar?” 

Brian watched the news footage over and over again, and then he 

finally noticed that some other details popped out to him. 

First, Lily’s hands clenched the gift box and her smile turned 

brittle when this woman exited the center and approached the 

press conferencie. 

Second, the woman bore none of the excitement that her 

coworkers had. On the contrary, she looked positively resentful 

to be there. Which was odd, considering every employee that 

participated in the Atkinson Dumpster Fire he laughed at his 

own pun for Lily’s social media debacle had been thrilled to 

receive the compensation check and luxury apparel. 

Not this woman though.