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.

lights dimmed, he closed his

mark the exact moment that Grace drifted to sleep. Her

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

on one of his birthdays, Dad said, ‘The most unreliable thing in this world is love. When she no longer loves you, it will be useless even if you were to kneel

this world has the power to control your emotions. She could

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

saying these things to me. Don’t stay here! It’s cold… it’s so cold… Don’t stay here… if you continue to stay

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

loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind

that, who’s talking to

“Don’t…go…”

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

Don’t go!” Jason struggled to catch hold of her, but it was like trying to catch

to drown. He felt so terrible

struggled to grab hold of something, even

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

Sister. Grace, the woman who has asked me to address her as

face. Her dark eyes were full of anxiety, her pink lips opening and closing

was telling him

hard and then

saw that Jay had awakened, she heaved a sigh of

had that dream for some time. It’d

he was holding

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

was about to drown, he had caught hold

had

of her and the

pit of his stomach. He curled up on his

saw him move, she became concerned again.

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

come because of

that had

adult, he’d not experienced a physical reaction

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