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."

carried

had long stopped pretending to avoid what had already happened

She came to Southbrook our of spite, probably because Yarwy's expression turned impatient, but then he recalled what than had said earlier that night. It left him

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

even saned his

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

circles on his chest. "Vancey, I don't want to make things ugly with my sister. I know she resents

envied Grace for Buying

trips to her when alar fiest aeturned

his eyes were filled only with Grace. Of

by kirke, Yancey's leait

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to take care

feeling of being cherished, she feltely said. There was, the happies she

he made his way to Grace's courpand its

the toned, andy to timeam in place the a

unseling feeling from

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kissing him

as quickly. "Grace already knows. It's not like there's any chance