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. Her breathing

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

on one of his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she

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 d*e. However, if possible, Dad hopes

the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was

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

door and he followed.

me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life

talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

hold of her, but it was like

drown. He felt so terrible that he

something, even if it

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

who has asked me to

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

was telling him not to be

hard and then

saw that Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what happened?

that dream for some time. It’d

Jason realized he was holding

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

about to drown, he had caught hold of something…

had

her and

ache spread in the pit of his stomach. He

she became concerned again. “Are you

“It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in a

the pain come because of the

he 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

not experienced a

had reached into his abdomen

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