My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict

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.

As the lights dimmed, he closed his eyes and breathed deeply.

mark the exact moment that Grace drifted to sleep. Her breathing evened

him for a 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 for a woman, don’t

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

the power to control your emotions. She could make you live or d*e. However,

make sense of his surroundings. It was the mansion but the wall color was different and there was a crib. Was this

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

door and he followed. He had to catch her. He couldn’t let her

loves me and is yet unable to give me the kind of life I want! I’ve already

talking to me

“Don’t…go…”

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

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

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

to grab hold of something, even if it was only a

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

Grace, the woman who has asked me

he saw a pretty face. Her dark eyes were

was telling him not to be

swallowed hard and then

she heaved a sigh of relief. ”Jay, what

that dream

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

that nonsense she’d talked about straws and lifesavers? He’d thought it so s*lly when she’d said it, but there was no discounting that her presence brought

he was about to drown, he had caught hold of

it had

immediately let go of her and the

in the pit of his stomach. He curled

him move, she became concerned again.

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

come because of the

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

an adult, he’d not experienced a physical reaction

someone had reached into his abdomen and was twisting