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 sleep. Her breathing evened out

the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if you were to fall for a woman, don’t love her

When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to

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

surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was

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

out the door and he followed. He

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! I’ve already

talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

He’s begging the

struggled to catch hold of her, but it was like trying to catch

he was about to drown. He felt so terrible that he found it

grab hold of something, even if it

rang beside his ears. ”Jay,

has asked me

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

was telling him

swallowed hard and then

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

dream

holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she was

He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but

dream, while he was about to drown,

it had

her and the warmth he’d felt

spread in the pit of his stomach.

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

“It’s just… stomach

come

tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the

adult, he’d not experienced a physical reaction like

reached into his abdomen

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