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.

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

him for a while, as bits and jagged pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him,

‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it

he was in 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 to experience

and tried to make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was this

cold… Don’t stay here… if you continue

followed. He had

I don’t want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I want!

that, who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

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

go!” 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 only

gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m

the woman who has

pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of

telling him not

hard and then

a sigh

had not had that dream for

he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she

He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that her presence brought him

he was about to drown, he had

had

go of her and the warmth he’d

pit of his stomach. He

saw 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

pain come because of

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

he’d not experienced a physical reaction

reached into his abdomen and

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