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

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

evaded him for a while, as bits and jagged pieces 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 woman, don’t love

thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to

in the 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.

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

here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if

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

telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

struggled to catch hold of her, but

drown. He felt so terrible that he found it

grab hold of something,

ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving. Don’t be afraid,

the woman who has asked me

a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her

was telling him not

hard and then

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

that dream for

Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as

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

about to drown,

it had

let go of her and the

the pit of his stomach. He curled up

him move, she became concerned again. “Are you not

“It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in a

the pain come

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

he’d not experienced

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