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

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

unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless

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

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

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

dark-haired woman stormed out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He

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

talking

“Don’t…go…”

Oh, it’s him. He’s begging

hold of her,

became darker and he was about to drown. He felt so

grab hold of something, even if

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

Sister. Grace, the woman who has asked me to address her

eyes were full of anxiety, her

telling him not

swallowed hard and

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

not had that dream for some time. It’d been

he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though

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

he was about to drown, he had caught hold of something… her

it had

of her and the

in the pit of his stomach. He curled up on

move, she became

nothing.” He tried to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in

pain come because of

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

he’d not experienced a physical

reached into his

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