Regret Came Too Late

Yancey couldn't get his hands on the hotel's surveillance footage, so he had no choice but to head back home.

A lot had been happening at his house lately. For one, his mother, Lily, had been storming off to his grandfather's house to complain about everything, and his grandfather was seriously fed up with it. His father was still dealing with the fallout from his affair and hadn't been home in days.

Yancey slumped in the car, chain-smoking several cigarettes before he finally drove back to the house. When he stepped through the door, he could hear Lily yelling at her sister, Yelena, on the phone.

"Yelena, don't even think about it! Do you really believe that he'll care about you just because you slept with him? He told me he didn't get any pleasure from doing it with you! I don't even want to call you my sister anymore! It's us or nothing from here on out!"

Yelena's side of the conversation was a mystery, but Lily had lost it completely. She swept everything off the coffee table, sending it crashing to the floor.

The recent events had stripped her of any dignity. She used to play the role of the perfect, virtuous wife, but now, it was impossible to keep up the act.

Every time she left the house, people would whisper and point fingers at her, knowing full well that her husband had slept with her sister.

Yet Yelena had no sense of shame. On that very night, she had taken plenty of photos and videos, and now, she was using them to extort money from Andrew.

As for Andrew, Jordan had hurled two cups at him because of the scandal. He couldn't risk letting the photos leak, so whenever Yelena wanted money, he paid up.

However, greed was an endless pit, and Yelena's appetite only grew after easily getting ten million dollars from him.

She couldn't help but thank Grace for coming up with such a brilliant way to rake in a fortune so quickly.

But even that wasn't enough. She was determined to push Lily out of the way. She wanted her place at the top, and she needed to work even harder for it to happen.

With so many photos and videos in her hands, anyone who dared cross her would certainly regret it.

Lily, still fuming over Yelena's betrayal, suddenly caught sight of Yancey. She quickly tried to straighten her disheveled hair.

"Yancey, what are you doing here today?"

chaos of the living room, his

"Yancey, you've come at the right time. I need to tell you something. I don't know who Hendricks pissed off, but they left him in a beggar's

this morning, and the doctors say that even if they manage to save him, he'll

this happen? Have they found out who did it?" Lily, who had always enabled Hendricks' behavior, couldn't hold back her tears. She shook her head. "No... Ugh, your grandparents are about to cry themselves sick over this. He's the only

mind. Too much had happened tonight, and he was

worry too much about it. He has made countless enemies

Lily's indulgence, she always covered for Hendricks no matter what he did. He had grown increasingly reckless over time, and getting a beating was just part

mind. Perhaps Hendricks' obsession with Grace was

to let Grace go to Hendricks, Yancey knew that if Hendricks ever touched her, he'd make sure the consequences were something no one would

in his heart that Grace was meant

his fist

startled by the sudden cold and

feeling

going on with

I'm going upstairs to rest. I won't be going back

couldn't go back tonight and face Alice. She

go rest. By the

"Mm."

vel

in an environment that heavily favored sons over daughters, and this mindset had unconsciously influenced her as well. As a result, she couldn't

the appearance of a warm, loving mother,

was heading upstairs, he saw

eyes lit up, and she

energy to chat

he heard her