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 his

to sleep. Her breathing evened out and she inhaled less

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

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

realize that someone in this world has the power to control your

mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was

stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold…

stormed out the door and he followed. He had to

I don’t want to hear your father telling me how much he loves me and is yet unable to

that, who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

now? Oh, it’s him. He’s

hold of

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

of something, even if it was only

rang beside his ears. ”Jay, Jay, I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving. Don’t

the woman who has asked me to address

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

him not to

hard and

saw that Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of relief. ”Jay,

had that dream for some time. It’d been years,

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

about straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was

while he was about to drown, he had caught hold of

had

of her and the warmth

the pit of

she became concerned again. “Are you not

He tried to suppress the pain. “It’s

the pain come

that had been the reaction of a child, a boy too young

experienced a physical reaction

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