Regret Came Too Late

Jodie winced as Yancey squeezed her wrist, her eyes reddening as she tried to hold back her tears.

She then forced a tight smile and went over the timeline again.

Yancey finally let go of her wrist, and a faint smile appeared on his lips. "It's fine. You can go now."

Jodie glanced down at her pale wrist, where a bruise was forming. The pain made her eyes water.

"Yancey, what's wrong with you tonight? You're acting all weird and cryptic. I'm not playing with you anymore."

With that, she stormed off downstairs.

As soon as Yancey entered his room, he immediately called one of the business partners who had been at the dinner with Ethan.

The person had just finished the event and was back home, groggy and barely awake when he picked up.

"Is this Mr. Yancey?"

"Yeah, it's me. I need to ask you something. Did Grace have dinner with you tonight? Was my uncle there too? Do you remember when it ended?"

The business partner thought for a moment. "Around seven, I think. It was pretty much done by then. But Grace was acting kind of strange.

"I remember she didn't really like your uncle before. So, I was surprised to see her in the same private room with him this time."

He yawned loudly. "But hey, that's your family's business, not mine."

Yancey hung up the phone, his grip on it tightening.

The dinner had ended at 7:00 pm, and yet Grace didn't leave the hotel until after nine at night.

been doing during those

finished his business dinner by seven, so he should've gone straight to

was late, barely ate anything, and even ran into Grace

ignore the growing suspicion about

Grace had once stayed at Palm Bay and left with a mark on her neck, which she claimed was from a mosquito

pieces together, the

Ethan were definitely involved with

shiver ran through Yancey, and his chest tightened like a wild animal roared in agony inside

needed to do something to quell the rising storm in his

his car keys. He was going straight to where Grace

Grace was sleeping soundly when suddenly, the doorbell

pulling her

that? Were they out

didn't want to deal with it. In fact, she even put

as though he wouldn't

soon escalated to him banging

of

Selene stood there, wearing a silk pajama set, Her hair was

hell are you doing at this hour? If you're not sleeping, I sure could use some

when he saw her. "Selene?" Selene yawned and absentmindedly twirled

need, talk about it tomorrow. I won't be able to sleep either

of the Jensen family, and she had shown extraordinary business acumen from a young age, making her a powerful woman in her own

rest of the

highly wary of her,

idea of

their inheritance. As