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

father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps.

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

world has the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or d*e.

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

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

out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t

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

talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

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

surrounding area became darker and he was about to drown.

hold of something, even if it was only a

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

who has asked me to address

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

telling him not to

swallowed hard

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

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

holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she

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

about to drown, he had caught

had saved

immediately let go of her and the warmth he’d

the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

Grace saw him move, she became concerned

pain. “It’s just… stomach

come because of

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

he’d not experienced

into his abdomen and was twisting his

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