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.

as bits and jagged pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my

unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were

the living room. “Jason, one day, when you fall in love, you will 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 that you will never get

of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color

saying these things to me. Don’t stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if

door and he followed.

much he loves me and is yet unable to give

who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If she

Don’t go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of

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

to grab hold of something,

caught hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m

woman who has asked me to

pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening and closing as

telling him not to

swallowed hard

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

dream for some time. It’d been years,

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

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

was about to drown, he

had saved

go of her

in the pit of his stomach.

move, she became concerned again. “Are

pain. “It’s just…

come because of the

emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child,

experienced a physical

had reached into his abdomen and was twisting his

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