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.

memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him,

love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to kneel before

has the power to control your emotions. She could make you

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

It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay

the door and he followed.

telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman.

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

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

hold of something, even if it was only a

hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay,

Sister. Grace, the woman who has asked me to address

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

was telling him not to

hard

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

had that dream for some time. It’d been years,

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

it so s*lly when she’d

was about to drown, he had caught hold of something…

had saved

let go of her and the

the pit of his stomach. He curled up on his

saw him move, she became concerned again. “Are you not

tried to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach

the pain come because of the

suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young to process

adult, he’d not experienced

into his abdomen

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