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.

drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened

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 will be useless even if you were to kneel

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

surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different

stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if

the door and he followed. He

me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

Jason struggled to catch hold of her, but

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

grab hold of something, even if it was

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

the woman who has asked

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

him not to be

swallowed hard and

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

that dream for some

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

it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that

he was about to drown,

had saved

immediately let go of her

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

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

nothing.” He tried to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in

the pain come because

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

not experienced a physical reaction

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

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