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.

Grace drifted to

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, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if you were to fall for a woman,

Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she

you will realize that someone in this world has the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or

of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was

cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if you continue to stay here… you will

and he followed. He had to catch her.

your father telling me how much he loves me and

who’s talking

“Don’t…go…”

about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If she leaves, my father

hold of her, but it was like trying

and he was about to drown. He

struggled to grab hold of something, even if it was

voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not

Grace, the woman who has

were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening

telling him not to be

hard and then

a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what happened? Did you

not had that dream for some time. It’d

holding Grace’s hand tightly as though

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

his dream, while he was about to drown, he had caught hold of something… her

it had saved

go of her

ache spread in the pit of his stomach.

Grace saw him move, she became concerned again. “Are you

suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine

come

suffer from severe stomach cramps whenever he tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the

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

if someone had reached into his

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