Chapter 14

Maria was angered and humiliated. Her hands fisted at her sides and she shook with the force of her outrage. She immediately turned to leave with Mia following her. That was slapping her in the face.

Grace felt as if she were watching a show. The minute she stepped out of the market, she saw a few people smashing a car that seemed to belong to Maria.

“What happened? Has she offended someone and that person is taking revenge?” Grace asked.

“Who knows?” Jason replied as his eyes glittered.

“Anyway, it’s none of our business.” Grace took Jason’s arm and walked to the bus stop.

Suddenly, Jason stopped walking. Grace turned to look at him and saw that he looked pale.

“What’s wrong?” Grace asked, looking worried. “Jay, are you okay?”

“N-nothing,” Jason stuttered. He shook his head as if to clear it.

“You look like you saw a ghost.”

His gaze cut swiftly to her.

The woman who stepped off the bus and disappeared into the market crowd…she’d looked too much like the woman who’d deserted her husband and son.

Surely, he was mistaken.

***

Grace frowned at him as they got ready for bed. She didn’t pry and he credited her for holding her tongue.

“Thank you for the phone,” he said and forced a smile for her benefit.

Her smile wobbled a bit, but she nodded. It was obvious she was worried about him.

But he was fine.

As the lights dimmed, he closed his eyes and breathed deeply.

that Grace drifted to sleep. Her

pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if you were to fall for a woman, don’t love her

on one of his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no

love, you will realize that someone in this world has the power to

to make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the

cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if you continue

dark-haired woman stormed out the door and he followed. He had to

how much he loves me and is yet unable to

who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

it’s him. He’s begging the woman.

Jason struggled to catch hold of

and he was about to drown. He felt so terrible that he found

something, even if it was

hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not

the woman who has asked me to address her

he saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her pink lips

telling him not

swallowed hard and

heaved a sigh of

had not had that dream for some time. It’d

Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly

lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that her

to drown, he had caught hold

it had saved

let go of her and the warmth he’d

spread in the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

him move, she became concerned

tried to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be

the pain come because of

suffer from severe stomach cramps whenever he tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young to process his

adult, he’d not experienced a physical reaction

as if someone had reached into his abdomen and was

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