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.

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

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

most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to

the power to control your emotions. She could make you live

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

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

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

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

of her,

was about to drown. He felt

to grab hold of something,

A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving. Don’t be afraid,

has asked me to address her as

dark eyes were

him not to

swallowed hard and

a sigh of relief. ”Jay,

He had not had that dream for some time.

realized he was holding

was that nonsense she’d talked about straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it,

while he was about to drown, he had caught hold of

it had

let go of her and the

the pit of his

became concerned again. “Are you not

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

come because of the

Jason was young, he would suffer from severe stomach cramps whenever he tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of

an adult, he’d not experienced a physical

someone had reached into his abdomen and was twisting his organs out of

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