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

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.

the problem too back then. She had been

en

eyes, but a small tug at

thick with congestion "Your knee in infected. Does it

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 a

more times before

to take a shower fast. The metallic went clinging to her skin

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 knock on the door.

him since last night andha'n un intim when he returned just now. How did

past the doctor toward the door across the hall. It was shut,

sit on the bed with a slight

in a large medical kit, put on gloves, and began treating

was applied that she finally unclenched her jaw, her tightly knitted brown

handed her some lever medication. "Take

"Alright. Thanks"

left, the

barely sat down when the door

entered his expression unreadable the maneuvered his wheelchair into the

Ourside,

in. The last rays of

red glow