Regret Came Too Late

Chapter 481

For a full minute, the hospital ward remained deathly quiet.

At that moment, Jordan was the first to move. He gently guided Jodie back onto the bed with a voice full of paternal warmth.

"Your forehead's bleeding. What good does this kind of impulsiveness do? Look at your uncle's face."

Jodie had made her way over on sheer adrenaline alone, and now that the rush had passed, she finally turned to look at Ethan.

Ethan stayed true to his nature. Even after such accusations, he sat in his wheelchair with effortless calm as though entirely untouched by the storm around him.

Instead, Jodie's heart was pounding in her chest as clarity slowly returned. She remembered he once told her that as long as she behaved herself, he would protect her forever. Had she crossed the line?

Her gaze dropped to her injured limbs, and her eyes welled up once more.

"Grandpa, I don't care. Please... you must seek justice for me!" she cried.

Lying back on the bed, the pain in her body was nothing compared to the ache in her heart. She loved Ethan more than anyone else. Yet here they were, on opposite sides of a chasm neither seemed to have any desire to bridge.

Why Grace?

Why was it always her?

Her teeth sank deeply into her lower lip, drawing blood as her voice thickened with anger. "Uncle Ethan, you like Grace, don't you? Are you so afraid that you can't even admit it? What kind of pathetic love is that?"

The moment she said that, Tim snapped, "Ms. Henderson!"

an alarming degree, the last trace of sanity flickering before she plunged into complete


back is because you've buried your feelings so deep that no one can

she would've chosen you! But no-you were so damn restrained, so

It was so still that Jodie could hear nothing but the pounding of her own

she

and gently patted her head, saying, "Focus on your recovery,

clinging to the last of her pride with every ounce

can't possibly let Grace walk away unscathed. Will someone

You'll soon have the answer you want." Jordan's tone remained as

meant for Jodie; it was a

Henderson family would. When that happened, Grace's fate would be

It was a threat.

A naked one.

foolish as she often was, could understand the unspoken words beneath that promise.


her lips tugged

and she announced with

ve

Thank you, Unele Ethan Thank you,

cast a sideways glance

she had said, he hid everything too well. There wasn't

in his

left as quickly as he

the blink of an eye, the ward was left with

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