Regret Came Too Late

"Eve mullion dollars. Please pay up." She held out her hand toward Sloan.

Out of guilt. Sloan didn't dare drag things out and quickly handed over his card.

Grace processed the payment and then glanced at Yancey. The way Sloan had paid so quickly suggested that something had indeed happened betwee

Raising an eyebrow, she said nothing. Some truths were best lett unsaid.

She turned and left to change out of her uniform in the employee's break room.

Suddenly, the door behind her flung open. Yancey stormed inside, his fury barely restrained.

He grabbed her by the throat

"Grace, are you trying to die? You w

went too far this time!"

How was he and Sloan supposed to face each other now after she said that in front of everyone?

Grace stared at his rage-

contorted face and felt a sharp pain shooting through her chest.

The grip on her throat tightened, and she was almost suffocating. Pain spread from her heart to every limb, and her body grew cold... She raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face. ceyla brad jeiked to the side, and his expressson froze in dishebel. His pripen her threat loosened instantly.

He touched his cheek, stunned to several seconds.

The Gar he kurs would neves hit him, bats L, she would rather but het self than see him get hurt, kt alene humiliate ban in trant at everyoncealin.

Der sense of uneasecteptinto him.

fen, drace asked, "Does it hurt?"

Yanoes's confidencetetimet She was taking (1) she was just trying to get his attention!

loved has to death. There was no way she could live without

deep breath. "Let's see

finally let before she

aber, she was barely

no way she didn'tted it. Her stomach

out of

lett Velvet Eclipse, just as she stepped outside, someone grabbed her

gave her a

stomach, then asked with a sinister look on his tice, "Feeline proud of

dollars in that VIP lounge but didn't dare to lash out in there earlier. Now that

He tezed so forcepolly that it felt like he

"Grace,

would be delighted if I sent you to

me that you made het angry on her birthday. You better watch out niest time, or I'll have a few guys

and Sloan would do anything for her. All she needed to do was say the word, and Sloan would

and chuckled "Don't piss Alice off again.

her, scotted, and

was burning, and her

a woman. She didn't egg him on earlier

up. Her stomach churned

stop it,

were

leed unwanted trash.

thing. Even though she had lost her

walked to the curb to had a taxi back to her

a sleek, black luxury car colled up in front of her. The window lowered, revealing

side had chiseled features so flawlessly sculpted it

His dark eyes were cool and indifferent as they reflected her disheveled state Even the light seed to favor

think, her

It was Elban.

person, yet she was afraid of him. Cold sweat broke out

didn't le-she must have always kept