Chapter 51


    Chapter 51


    Grace was lost in her thoughts that night when she returned to


    the apartment. Just as she was having dinner with Jay, someone


    knocked at the door.


    &


    Grace was startled because she doesn’t usually have visitors.


    “Could it be your family?”


    Grace wasn’t up to another visit from her dad or stepmom, and it


    would be a long time before she’d forgive Evelyn for her treachery.


    But when she opened the door, she was surprised to see Chase


    standing outside.


    Chase was wearing a ck cotton shirt and his face was slightly


    red. He looked at Grace and spoke rather uneasily, “I…” He had


    barely opened his mouth when he noticed Jason, who had walked


    over to stand behind Grace, and he stopped suddenly as if he was


    hesitating.


    “Why are you here?” Jason asked. “Are you looking for my sister?” Jason asked.


    “I… I have some business to discuss with Grace privately,” Chase said with a flushed face, then he


    nced at Grace and asked, “Is that okay with you, Grace?”


    Jason frowned.


    Grace opened her mouth to reply, but Jay interrupted her and said, “Is it something you can’t discuss


    here?”


    “It’s…” Chase hesitated.


    Grace said, “If there’s something you need to say, there’s no harm


    in speaking frankly, and in front of Jay.”


    Chase started to wring his hands. “I… I wanted to say that I don’t


    mind that you’ve been in jail. I really like you and I hope that you can be my girlfriend. I… I can wait. As


    long as you’re not interested


    in anyone else, I can wait,” he blurted out in a single breath as if he had had to muster all of his


    courage to say those words.


    Grace was stunned. “I, uh, Chase, I don’t know what to say.”


    Chaset kept talking. “I know I’m still just a small-time driver but I will work hard to earn money to


    support a family, I… I just hope I can give you happiness.”


    As soon as Chase was done talking, he nodded in Jason’s direction, bowed toward Grace, and hurried


    away. “Just consider it,” he said as his parting words.


    Grace stared numbly at his back. Chase really liked her?


    Only when a hand looped around her waist to pull her into the


    room and the door mmed shut did she snap out of her trance.


    “What are you…?”


    She had barely finished speaking when Jay trapped her against the door. He leaned forward and


    stared at her fixedly with his dark eyes. “What are you thinking about, Sister?”


    But there was a bite to his words, and the way he normally called


    her sister felt more like a promise-or a threat.


    “Nothing,” she replied.


    He closed the space between them until she couldn’t draw a breath without breathing him in. “Let me


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    go, Jay.”


    And yet, it was as if he did not hear her. He pressed his face closer to her instead and his lips lightly


    grazed her ear.


    She sucked in a breath.


    “Sister, were you touched by what that man said just now?”


    “Touched?” Herugh was sad. “That I don’t know, but I am surprised. I’m a convict, Jay. used of


    taking a human life. What man would want to be with me?”


    “Did you invite him here?”


    “No.” She shook her head. “And I truly didn’t expect Chase to just


    show up and say those things.”


    He frowned. “I don’t trust him.”