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.

the exact moment that Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened out

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

birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to

will realize that someone in this world has the power to control your

It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was this

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

followed. He had to catch

don’t want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to

who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If she leaves,

Jason struggled to catch hold of

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

hold of something, even if it was

gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving. Don’t be afraid,

the woman who has asked me to

a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full

was telling him not to be

swallowed hard and

a sigh

had not had that dream for

nightmare.” Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she

it so s*lly when she’d

he was about to drown, he had caught hold of

it had saved

her

pit of his

him move, she became

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

come because of the

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

adult, he’d not experienced a

into his

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