Regret Came Too Late

Chapter 139

---- Chapter 139 On the other hand, Grace and Selene had already returned to their place. Selene casually flipped her hair, clearly pleased with the events of the evening. She stretched out a hand in front of Grace. "I like your personality. How about we go shopping together sometime?" Since waking up, Grace hadn't made any new acquaintances besides her friend, Joanne. She shrugged off any reservations and shook Selene's hand casually. "gure." Selene then waved her off. "Alright.

I'll head inside, then." The two went their separate ways. Grace was drained from the day's events, so after a quick shower, she collapsed into bed and fell asleep immediately . The following day, while she was immersed in her tasks, she was told someone was downstairs asking for her. When she went down, she saw Carmen and Liam waiting for her. Liam was leaning against a nearby pillar with his arms crossed, avoiding eye contact with Grace.

However, Carmen ---- stormed up to her and immediately launched into a tirade. "Why did you block everyone's numbers? You didn't even come home last night! We've been trying to find you everywhere! Alice had another incident! She was kidnapped ! She's traumatized, and everyone's still talking about that audio recording. "Grace, I won't say much more, but you need to admit that you're the one who doctored that recording." Grace slowly sat down on the couch in the lobby.

"'So, you came to see me just for this?" Carmen quickly sat down across from her, her tone self- righteous. "This is the most urgent issue right now." "Mrs. Lambert , if you want me to admit to it, then you must already suspect that the voice in the recording belongs to Alice, right? It's not a doctored recording. She was just simply trying to frame me, but it got exposed. Now, she can't back out, and you, unwilling to see her get lambasted by everyone, came here to find me.

already been criticized by everyone for so long, so adding this to the pile won't change much." Without a word, Grace grabbed the cup that was still half filled

obligated to cover for anyone, especially not for someone like Alice. "Tf you don't want her to suffer, just shift the blame

casually tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and shot her a glance. "Don't come looking for me for this kind of thing

"Where did it all go wrong..." Liam's questions didn't stop. "Mom, answer me! Is what Grace said true? Did you already ---- know that the recording wasn't doctored ? If that's the case, why are you even here? Isn't this just blatant favoritism?" Before he could finish, a sharp slap landed across his

Liam held his face in shock. He had never been slapped by anyone except for Grace. Carmen was also taken aback by her actions. Her heart ached as she lowered herself onto the couch and rubbed her forehead. "Do you think I want this to

that has happened?" Carmen rubbed her temples, and the scent of tea lingered faintly in the air. "Alice's adoptive parents are scumbags. She was raised in an abusive household. They adopted her to use her as a child bride for their idiot son. "Alice started working at 12, giving every penny

I went to pick her up, her skin was so damaged, and she couldn't even look me in the eye." Liam fell silent in an instant, his chest aching. He bit his lip and said, "But still... That shouldn't have happened..." ---- "What shouldn't have happened? The reason she was kidnapped was because Grace intentionally hid the matter and didn't report it! Alice saved her sister. After all those years of suffering