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.

the lights dimmed, he closed

Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened out and

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

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

day, when you 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.

was the mansion but the wall color was different

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

stormed out the door and he followed. He had to catch her. He

telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I want! I’ve already done

that, who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

him. He’s begging the

catch hold of her, but it was like

surrounding area became darker and he was about to drown. He felt so terrible that he found it difficult to

struggled to grab hold of something, even

something warm. A gentle voice rang beside his ears.

woman who has asked me to

saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were full of

him not

hard and then

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

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

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

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

his dream, while he was about to drown, he had caught hold of something…

had

of her and the warmth he’d felt

ache spread in the pit of his stomach. He

him move, she became concerned again. “Are

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

the pain come because

severe stomach cramps whenever he tried to suppress his emotions. But that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young

he’d not experienced a physical

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