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.

dimmed, he closed

Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened out and she

the library and told him, ‘Jason, don’t follow in my footsteps. Even if you

is love. When she no longer loves you, it

someone in this world has the power to control your emotions. She could make you

It was the mansion but the wall color was different

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

followed.

want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me

that, who’s talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

that talking about now? Oh, it’s him. He’s begging the woman. If she leaves, my

go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of her, but it

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

of something, even if it was only a

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

Grace, the woman who has asked me to

minute Jason opened his eyes, he saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full

him not to be

hard and then

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

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

Jason realized he was holding Grace’s hand tightly as though

s*lly

his dream, while he was about to drown, he had caught

had saved

go of her and the

of his stomach. He

move, she became

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

pain come

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 forbidden

he’d not experienced a

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