Regret Came Too Late

Chapter 298

The next day at 6:00 am, Ethan's car drove past Grace. She had been standing there all night, and her head was fuzzy from the exhaustion. However, the second she saw him, her eyes lit up with hope. "Mr. Henderson..."

The car didn't even pause. It rolled past her without a single glance. She froze, then stepped back to her place.

The day dragged on, and Druville was deep into winter now. The temperature had plunged since last night, and her feet had gone from cold to numb to pain. Moreover, it was starting to snow now. Grace sniffed once, then again.

She stayed rooted in place. She didn't have the guts to leave until Ethan forgave her.

Somehow, Yancey found out she was outside Palm Bay and drove over almost immediately. He wasn't exactly pleased when he saw her.

"Grace! What are you doing here? Why are you outside Ethan's place?"

After his previous run-in with Thomson, Yancey convinced himself that Grace liked him. When she didn't make a move afterward, he started second-guessing things and ended up unloading his confusion on his gang of good-for-nothing friends.

These guys used to treat Grace like a joke, like a pathetic, lovesick girl chasing after Yancey. They even liked riling him up about it.

Lately, something had changed. Whenever Yancey got drunk, he would start slurring her name, ranting nonsense.

"How the hell does someone just stop loving you? That doesn't happen. Did she ever love me at all? Oh, wait. What if Thomson wasn't the decoy and I was? Or worse, what if we both were? No, no way. I'm Yancey Henderson! I have the looks and the money. Grace would have to be blind to treat me like a placeholder."

lounge while muttering to himself, and his friends would join in, trashing her

of women in the city better than her. If she's got you down this

right on cue, Yancey would snap

about Grace. You don't get to. It was my fault-all my fault. I was the one who screwed up. I was blind as hell. I chose someone like Alice, slept with her, and messed everything up. That's why

that, muttering the same thing on

he could say whatever he wanted about

were red from the cold, and it upset him enough to start yanking off his own coat.

she pulled back. The rejection hit him square in the chest. He was ready to blow up but then remembered he was supposed to be chasing

me? If you still have feelings for

as the word "married" left his mouth, his eyes lit up. He was already picturing it-the life he

he figured his life would be nothing short of bliss.

told you a hundred times. I

still reached out, trying to drape his coat over

a memory

made him

him to

stayed upstairs, tending to Alice, who was faking being sick. He

In the

pressed her fingers to her temple. She couldn't even