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Chapter 88: A Mother’s Intuition
Author: Bella Grace
last update2025-07-02 20:51:50

Bose stood still in her living room, her eyes resting on the life-sized portrait of her son—Jalen, that hung on the wall.

The edges of the painting were perfectly framed, but her gaze had moved past the gold frame and into the soft gaze of the man in the picture. She held a half-filled wine glass in one hand, her other hand unconsciously pressed against her chest.

There had been so much talk, whispers in boardrooms, sighs in the hallways, murmurs in the street corners, that Jalen was dead. Gone forever.

But somehow, Bose refused to accept it. Her heart wouldn’t let her. Her instincts as a mother were too stubborn to believe otherwise.

She walked slowly to the couch, sat gently, and stared at the muted television. Though her body was there, her mind had travelled elsewhere.

Where could her son be? Was he still bleeding? Was he even able to walk? Eat? Breathe?

The thoughts consumed her. More than once, she’d woken up in the middle of the night, sweating and gasping.

She’d seen his
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