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.

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

him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason,

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

the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or d*e. However, if possible, Dad hopes that you will never

his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different

It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay

he followed. He

father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to

who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

talking about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman.

struggled to catch hold of her, but it was

about to drown. He felt so terrible that he

struggled to grab hold of something, even if

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

Grace, the woman who has asked me to address her as

eyes, he saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her

him not to

swallowed hard and

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

had not had that dream for some time.

nightmare.” Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though

so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that her presence

his dream, while he was about to drown, he

it had

immediately let go of her

spread in the pit of his stomach.

she became concerned again. “Are you not feeling

“It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in

come because of the

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

he’d not experienced a physical reaction

if someone had reached into his

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