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

in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if

world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you

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 to experience

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

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

and he followed. He had to catch

and is yet unable to give me the kind of

who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

that talking about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If

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

drown. He felt so terrible that he found it difficult to

grab hold of something, even if it was only

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

woman who has asked me to address her as

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

telling him

hard and then

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

frowned. He had not had that dream for some time. It’d

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

straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said

about to drown, he had caught hold

it had saved

go of her and

of his stomach. He curled up on

she became concerned again.

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

the pain come because of the

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

an adult, he’d not experienced a physical reaction like

had reached into his

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