Regret Came Too Late

Ethan's face remainedexpressionless as he maneuvered his wheelchair to leave.

Alice quickly stepped behind him. "Mr. Henderson, let me walk you back."

The words had barely left her muthahepäbe heard a sing

She thought she had misheard for a second. She stood frozen, unable to process what hadju

It wasn't until the sound of Ethan's wheelchair had completely faded into the night that fury gradually overtook her features. Her hands clenched into fists, her chest rising and falling violently"Never in her life ha humiliated liker thin.

Ich actually dared to twat her this way?

He can into her on a quin night, and the two of them just stood before the same palding. Il shumtive felt like fate, shouldn't it?

Damn in This man refused to play by the rules!

rant the door, a ma sulled hen into his arms, kissing her hungrily.

Alice then summed back to her room. But the moment she opeand the does, a man pulled her into

The frustration in her chest eased considerably as she thought about how indifferent he was toward orace yet so passionate with her.

"Yancey, why aren't you asleep yet?"

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"I just thought the moon looked nice."

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a year ago, they had long stopped pretending to avoid what

came to Southbrook our of

with Grace was genuinely good. She had liked him, and he

even saned

him to share, refusing to let even when she was on the verge of death herself. That was something he had fur Alice's hardchips had been far worse. She had suffered so much outside before finally returning tive years ago, yet she was

of them would have been mafficked incread Alice's fingers traced slow circles on his chest. "Vancey, I don't want to make things ugly with my sister. I know she resents me, thinking I stole everything from her. I get it. And she really

envied Grace for

trips to her when alar fiest aeturned to the

his eyes were filled only with Grace. Of course, she

by kirke, Yancey's leait plifiedtomedian, but that

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care of everything

of being cherished, she

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kissing him

but he brushed it off just as quickly. "Grace already knows. It's not like there's any chance of us being together Then why are