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.

closed his eyes and

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

him down in the library and told

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

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 experience

his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was

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

followed. He had to catch her. He

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

that, who’s talking

“Don’t…go…”

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

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

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

something, even if it was

of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay,

has asked me to address her as

Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her

was telling him not to be

swallowed hard and

saw that Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief.

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

realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly

so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no

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

had saved

her and

in the pit of his stomach. He

Grace saw him move, she became concerned

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

come because of the

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

he’d not experienced a

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