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.

he closed his

exact moment that Grace drifted to

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

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

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

make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different

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

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

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

talking to

“Don’t…go…”

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

catch hold of her,

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

hold of something,

he caught hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears.

voice… Sister. Grace, the woman who has

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

was telling him

hard

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

He had not had that dream for some time.

holding Grace’s hand tightly as

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

he was about to drown,

it had saved

immediately let go of her and the warmth he’d felt

of

move, she became concerned again.

pain. “It’s just… stomach

pain come because of the

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

an adult, he’d not experienced a physical

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