Regret Came Too Late

Chapter 42

Mandy was at a lens for words. She wantedionice them out, but nothing seemed apt enough. The way these people kept escalating their insults made her want tácy.

But Grace simply polled open the car door and gor in

"Mandy, pet in," she said.

Mandy chubed into the car with deve

Behand them, the farmers saved their brooms in elebiation as if they had just tid themselves of a plagie

Seeing this scene in the rear-

view mittor, Mandy nearly spat out blood in rage. She couldn't hold it in anymore, and her tears spilled over.

Exhausted from a sleepless night, even the middle-

aged driver in the if our seat clutched the steering wheel with reddened eyes. He, too, was crying

Who would't feel devastated? Pouring your heart into something, only to have in trampled on Worse yet, Grace was being accused of crimes she never committed Grace sat by the window and watched the sce Though. Stop crying.

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But Mandy was too far gone. nlowing her nose into a tissue, she stifled between her worth. "I'm just.. I'm just so angry! I've never been treated like this in my whole life! That Alice is such a

be's socha Uch, she's vilet

it trice, in this what your life in the Lambert family has been like? Everyone side with her, no matter what? No wonder your reputation is so bad. I race dédia's knyan how to respond

had been part of the problem too back then. She had been too eager to please

en

shut her eyes, but a small tug at her

was thick with congestion "Your knee in infected. Does it

stop crying. This isn't the end of the road. Let me think it through once we get

few more times before finally quinting

the lion, Grace forced herself to take a shower fast. The metallic went clinging

The wounds were swollen and angry. Just as she was about to ask the front desk for a first aid kit, there

un intim when he returned just now. How did he know she was

the doctor toward the door across the hall.

to sit on the bed with a

began treating her wounds. When he pulled out

applied that she finally unclenched her jaw, her tightly knitted brown relaxing slightly. Sweat had already gathered

medication. "Take this.

"Alright. Thanks"

the

barely sat down when the door swung open

the maneuvered his wheelchair into the room and closed the door behind

Ourside,

settled in. The last rays of sunlight bathed the room

red glow