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.

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,

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

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

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

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

stormed out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t let

father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I want! I’ve already

who’s talking

“Don’t…go…”

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

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

about to drown. He felt so terrible

to grab hold of something, even if it was only a

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

has asked me to address her as

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

telling him not to be

swallowed hard and

Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief.

had not had that dream

was holding Grace’s

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

his dream, while he was about to drown, he had caught hold

it had saved

her and the warmth he’d

spread in the pit of his stomach. He

Grace saw him move, she became

to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in

the pain come because

his emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young to process his grief and

he’d not experienced a physical reaction like

his abdomen and was

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