Chapter 66

Grace was stunned. She had not been expecting the place where she met Jay to be the place where her father had passed away.

“I’m so sorry,” she said.

“He only had himself to blame for dying.” He shrugged. “Sister, there is no need for you to apologize,” Jason said in a low voice.

She suspected the story was not so simple as Jay depicted it. ‘He only had himself to blame?’ that sounded ominous. Grace was surprised. She hadn’t been expecting him to describe his father’s death that way.

“Jay, I’m not sure what you man by blaming him, perhaps it was some accident-”

“Was it? I don’t think so. He fell in love with someone he shouldn’t have fallen in love with, then when she discovered that he was useless, he was cast aside. It didn’t matter even if he kneeled down and begged. No,” Jason’s eyes darkened into an abyss. “No, that’s not entirely true. The more he groveled and begged, the more she despised him.” He shook his head as if clearing the thoughts. “In the end, he died in despair and had frozen to death in the snow.”

Jason’s expression was as indifferent as if he was just talking about something as ordinary as the weather-not a man succumbing to hypothermia and dying in it. Even his voice was

as calm as usual. But… this was his father!

Grace felt as if he had returned to the first time she had seen

He’d been distant then

out to

pupils. “Tell me,” he goaded

she tried to respond. After a long while, she finally murmured, “Is that woman your mother?”

was silent. There was no expression on his face, but there was a flash of

so she knew the answer.

to comfort him, feeling that at this moment any words she could provide would be useless.

stood up and hugged him as he stayed atop the

chest, his nose was inhaling her breath,

her heartbeat came into his ears through

him feel like… staying in this position

“Mom, don’t go…”

the ground, hoping that the woman, who had already

useless. The woman still insisted on leaving and did not even look back

to leave, the boy wanted to reach out

in the next moment, his tiny hand was swung away, and he felt a

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