Chapter 148


    Chapter 148


    Grace returned to the rental apartment in a state of embarrassment. “It has only been a few days since


    I left for


    Thanksgiving and returned but it feels like I’ve experienced a whole lifetime in that period.”


    She studied the cramped rental apartment and felt as if there


    was a chilliness in the air. Grace could not help smiling wryly.


    “From now on, I’ll stay here alone once again.


    “No one will apany me and talk to me in the still of the night. Moreover, no one will smile as they


    call me ‘Sister’!”


    She grabbed a set of fresh clothes and washed away her shame before starting to tidy up the house.


    “Although Jason was here for only a short time, there are so many traces of him in the house. The


    cutlery, towel, and toothbrush he was using as well as the clothes and shoes he


    wore…”


    She cleared up everything and ced them all in a cardboard


    box.


    “Why not throw them away?” she asked herself. “Keeping these things will just take up space, but I’d


    rather keep them. It


    might sound funny but I actually miss the days I spent with Jay.


    “That Jason was clearly an illusion. He was a fake created by Jason, but… my feelings for Jason were


    real!


    “I was so happy on the days I had Jason, as if I was finally not going to be alone anymore.”


    Grace finally picked up the half-knitted gloves she had ced by her headboard. “I had wanted to wait


    until after Thanksgiving to find the time to continue knitting these


    gloves for him to wear. And yet, now… I will never have the


    opportunity to finish these gloves.”


    She put the gloves as well as the needles and yarn into the cardboard box. She then took some tape to


    seal the box, cing it in a corner of the house.


    “I’ll still be living by myself in the future. Jason is nothing but a


    man from my dreams,” Grace thought to herself.


    At night, she did not turn off the lights and slept with them on. “Back when I left prison and didn’t have


    Jason, I would keep the lights on when I went to sleep because the darkness


    reminded me of when I was in jail.


    “But then, Jason lived with me. I didn’t know when I started to not need the lights on to fall asleep.


    “But now it seems as it this habit has reappeared.”


    Grace gave Lina a call to inform her good friend that she had returned to the rental apartment.


    “Will you be at the rental apartment tomorrow? I’lle and find you,” Lina said.


    “Yes, I’ll be here,” she replied. “It seems that other than the rental apartment, I have nowhere else I can


    go.”


    Grace was unable to sleep for the entire night. Whenever she shut her eyes, she could only see


    Jason’s face and the scent of blood was still lingering in her mouth, unwilling to disappear.


    She had gargled countless times throughout the night but that bloody stench was still very distinct.


    The next day, Lina arrived at the rental apartment and when she noticed Grace’s tired appearance, she


    hurriedly asked, “I only saw the news this morning. Were you surrounded at the hospital entrance when


    you tried to leave yesterday? Are you


    hurt?”


    Grace shook her head and replied, “I was only a bit embarrassed, but not hurt.”


    Lina was angry and distraught when she saw the self-deprecating expression on her friend’s face. “I’m


    angry


    that those people who surrounded and scolded her knew


    nothing about the incident, and yet they treated an innocent woman like that. I’m distraught that my


    friend clearly had not


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    been drinking but she was indicted on a charge of driving


    under the influence.”