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 eyes and breathed

that Grace drifted to sleep.

a while, as bits and jagged pieces of memories floated through his psyche. His father sat him down in the library and

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

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 and

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

he followed. He had

how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me

who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

that talking about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s

Don’t go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of her, but it was like trying to catch the

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

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

who has asked me to address

were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening and closing as

him not to

hard

a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what happened?

dream

realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though

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

drown, he had

had saved

let go of her and the warmth he’d

in the pit of his stomach. He curled up on his

saw him move, she became concerned again.

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

the 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

he’d not experienced a physical reaction like

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