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?"

of the living

waved for someone to clean up the mess, her eyes reddening as tears welled up. "Yancey, you've come at the right time. I

on when we found him. They rushed him to the ICU this morning, and the doctors say that even if they

behavior, couldn't hold back her tears. She shook her head. "No... Ugh, your grandparents are about

in his mind. Too much had happened tonight, and he

someone investigate it. I'll visit him at the hospital soon. Don't worry too much about it. He has made countless enemies

Hendricks no matter what he did. He had grown increasingly reckless over time,

Yancey's mind. Perhaps Hendricks' obsession

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

way, it had become a given in his heart that Grace was

his fist slowly clenching by

sudden cold and intense air emanating

feeling like Yancey had

going on

rest. I won't be going

he couldn't go back tonight and face Alice. She was

"Alright, go rest. By the way, Jodie's back. She's on

"Mm."

vel

Jodie, but Lily had grown up in an environment that heavily favored sons over daughters, and this mindset had unconsciously influenced her as well. As a result, she couldn't treat Jodie the same way she did

of a

upstairs, he saw Jodie

up, and she excitedly called

didn't have the energy to chat

stairs when he heard her