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.

mark the exact moment that Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened out

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

on one of his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you,

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 d*e. However, if possible, Dad hopes that you will never get to

and tried to make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was this

stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if you continue to stay here… you will freeze

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

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

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If she leaves, my

of her, but it was like trying

to drown. He felt so terrible that he found

hold of something, even

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

who has asked

eyes were

him not

hard

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

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

was holding Grace’s hand tightly as

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

drown, he had

had saved

immediately let go of her

of his stomach. He curled up on his

him move, she became concerned again. “Are you not

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

pain come because of the

Jason was young, 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 grief and forbidden to

experienced a physical

was as if someone had reached into his

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