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

Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened

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

is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be

was 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. She could make

of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the

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

and he followed. He had to catch her.

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

talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

catch hold of her, but

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

of something, even

hold of something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving. Don’t be afraid,

has asked me to address her

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

telling him not to be

swallowed hard and

saw that Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of

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

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

lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when

about to drown, he had

had saved

go of her and the

pit of his stomach. He curled up on his

she became concerned again. “Are you not feeling

nothing.” He tried to suppress the pain. “It’s just… stomach cramps. I’ll be fine in a

the pain come because

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

he’d not experienced a

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