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.

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

and jagged pieces of memories floated through his 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

is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to

realize that someone in this world has the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or d*e.

the mansion but the wall

so cold… Don’t stay here… if

he followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t

I’m leaving. I don’t want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is

who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

He’s begging the

struggled to catch hold of her, but it

and he was about to drown. He felt so

hold of something, even if it was

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

the woman who has

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

was telling him not

swallowed hard

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

frowned. He had not had that dream for some time. It’d been years,

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

straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that her

was about to drown, he had caught hold

it had saved

of her and the warmth

in the pit of his stomach. He curled

move, she became concerned

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

pain come

Jason was young, he would suffer from severe stomach cramps whenever he tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of

an adult, he’d not experienced

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

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