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

psyche. His father sat him down in the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if you were to fall for a woman, don’t love her

birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless

you will realize that someone in this world has the power to control your emotions. She

mansion but the wall color

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

he followed. He had

how much he loves me and is

who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

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

to drown. He felt so terrible

struggled to grab hold of something, even

warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears.

Sister. Grace, the woman who has asked

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

telling him not

swallowed hard

awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what

dream for some time. It’d been years,

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

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

to drown, he had caught hold of something…

had saved

let go of her

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

him move, she became

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

come

would 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

an adult, he’d not experienced a physical

someone had reached into his abdomen and was twisting his organs

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