Regret Came Too Late

Grace sat in

the

car and carefully cleaned the wound on her knee with a portable disinfectant spray. It would take two hours to get to Northcock. She didn't have time to

wait for it to heal Mandy handed her a bottle of mineral water, her voice filled with grievance. "Grace, don't be sad. 11 I hear anyone talking bad about you. I'll set the record straight when I get back to the

office.

Grace pre he wound another spritz and chuckled. "It doem't matter. People have mouths, and they'll say whatever they want. Let them."

Mandy hesitated, then finally spoke up. "Actually, I have a friend in your department. No one there really likes you. But back then, you and Yancey got along pretty well. That was a few Tears ago, though. After t A few years ago? That must have been betone Alice returned to the Lambert family

from the moment she came back, everything changed.

"Grace, you and Yancey are engaged. It's not like he didn't like you before. How did things get to this point? Are

you really never going back? Prople in your department told me that you're willing to endure anything just to win him back."

Grace rubbed her temples. Warthere ever a time when she and Vancey were close?

She didn't remember anything from before her memory loss, but the bitterness that surfaced whenever she saw Yancey on the Lambert family that couldn't be fake. Maybe she really had cated once. But now, n Seving her stay ment, Mandy quickly shut up as well

pulled up

to their apple orchards. A few

the farmers were over 30 and had no clue about the livestreaming industry, Only

young ones didn't understand the platform's

was easy for them to get scammed and end up losing

Grace glanced at

tents around her and immediately knew they'd been streaming for a long time. But their

quick walled

caught sight of

and Southbrook were just

from the

many areas. These apples would start falling to the ground in just a few days, and once that happened, they wouldn't be fresh anymore. Southbrook had project leaders over Grace turned to the student. "How many apples are

and he shot up from his chair. "What do you mean by that? Did you seriously drive two hours jest to humiliate us? You Southbrook people have

even smeared

would be promoted first, then we'd sell them ingether. But the moment Southbrook apples got famous, you

relationship between the two regions" farmers was strained, but she hadn't realized just how bad it had gotten. Before she could say anything, the nearby farmers, who had been busy

saw a rake swinging toward

take struck her back with a dull thad Pain shot through her, and the

people