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

floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told

in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you

one day, when you fall in love, you will realize that someone in this world has the power to control your

sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was

these things to me. Don’t stay here! 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.

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

who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

He’s begging the woman. If she leaves,

Don’t go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of her,

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

of something, even if it

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

woman who has asked me to

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

him not to

swallowed hard and

sigh of relief. ”Jay, what happened? Did you have a

dream for some time. It’d

he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though she

about straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when

about to drown, he had caught hold of something… her

it had

her and the warmth

spread in the pit of his stomach. He

him move, she became concerned again.

the pain. “It’s just…

come

tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young to process his grief and forbidden to talk

experienced a

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

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