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

bits and jagged pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library

one of his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves 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

make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the

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

dark-haired woman stormed out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t let her

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

talking

“Don’t…go…”

He’s begging the woman. If she leaves,

of her, but it was

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

struggled to grab hold of something, even if it

voice rang beside his ears.

Grace, the woman who has asked me to address

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

telling him

hard

a sigh

He had not had that dream for some

was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she was his

lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting

drown, he had caught hold of something… her

had

let go of her and the warmth

in the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

Grace saw him move, she became concerned again. “Are you not feeling

suppress the pain. “It’s just…

pain come because of the

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

adult, he’d not experienced a

as if someone had reached into his abdomen and was

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