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.

doing during

finished his business dinner by seven, so

had said he was late, barely ate anything, and even ran into Grace when they

wasn't sharp, he couldn't ignore the growing suspicion about Ethan and Grace this

once stayed at Palm Bay and left with a mark on her

all the pieces

and Ethan were definitely

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

do something to quell the rising storm

hurried downstairs and grabbed his car keys. He was going straight to

soundly when suddenly, the doorbell in the living

frowned, pulling her pillow

hell was that? Were they out of their

fact, she even put on her

Yancey wasn't about to rest. It was as though he wouldn't give up

had started as ringing the doorbell soon escalated to him banging

of

the door at the end the hallway creaked open. Selene stood there, wearing a silk pajama set,

this hour? If

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

too noisy. Grace's probably asleep by now. Whatever you need, talk about it tomorrow. I won't be able to sleep either if you keep banging

daughter of the Jensen family, and she had shown extraordinary business acumen from

the rest of

wary

liked the idea

away their inheritance. As