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.

drifted to sleep. Her

evaded him for a while, as bits and jagged pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told

‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no

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 to

mansion but the wall color was different and

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

out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He

he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I want! I’ve already done

talking to

“Don’t…go…”

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

struggled to catch hold of her,

became darker and he was about to drown. He felt so

hold of something, even if

hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay,

Grace, the woman who has asked

were full

him not to

hard and then

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

dream for some time. It’d been

a nightmare.” Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand

and 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…

had

immediately let go of her and the warmth

dull ache spread in the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

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

to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps.

come because

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

he’d not experienced a

as if someone had reached into his abdomen and was twisting his organs out

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