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.

moment that Grace drifted to sleep.

his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow

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

living room. “Jason, one day, when 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

It was the mansion but the wall color was

Don’t stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here…

dark-haired woman stormed out the door and he followed.

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

who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

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

struggled to catch hold of her, but it was like trying to catch

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

of something,

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

voice… Sister. Grace, the woman who has asked me to address her as

face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening and closing as if

was telling him not

hard and then

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

not had that dream

had a nightmare.” Jason realized he was holding

so s*lly when she’d said it,

while he was about to drown, he had

it had saved

immediately let go of her and

the pit of

became concerned again. “Are you

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

pain come because of

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

an adult, he’d not experienced

if someone had reached into his abdomen and

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