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.

ΠΕ

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

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

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

en

shut her eyes, but a small tug

voor was thick with congestion "Your

not that bad," Grace ceplied. "Come on, stop crying. This isn't the end of the road. Let me think it through once we get back to the There's always

sniffled a few more times before finally

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

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

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

the door across the hall. It

way back to sit on the bed with a slight

kit, put on gloves, and began treating her wounds. When he pulled out the embedded stone, she turned ghostly

she finally unclenched her jaw, her tightly knitted brown

doctor handed her some lever medication. "Take this.

"Alright. Thanks"

left, the

sat down when the door

the maneuvered his wheelchair into the room and closed the door

Ourside,

in. The last rays of

red glow