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 breathing evened out and

floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even

his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it

realize that someone in this world has the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or d*e. However, if possible, Dad hopes

tried to make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was

It’s cold… it’s so cold…

followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t let her

I don’t want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life

that, who’s talking

“Don’t…go…”

now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the

Don’t go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of her, but it was like trying to catch the

he was about to drown. He felt so terrible

to grab hold of something, even if

his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not

has asked me

minute Jason opened his eyes, he saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening and closing

him

hard and then

awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what

that dream for some time. It’d been

I had a nightmare.” Jason realized he was holding Grace’s

and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there

about to drown, he had caught

had saved

her and the warmth

the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

move, she became concerned again.

suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in a

come

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

experienced a physical reaction like

was as if someone had reached into his abdomen and was twisting his

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