Regret Came Too Late

Alice couldn't stop shaking. Every memory of last night turned her world to ash. How had everything gone so wrong?

She must have lost her mind. After the police found her that morning, she'd immediately tried to drag Grace down with her. Her thoughts were a jumbled mess, which made her blurt out whatever came to mind.

"It had to be her. Only she would do something like this to me," she mumbled.

The moment those words left her mouth, Liam couldn't take it anymore.

"Give it a rest, Alice. Who do you think you're fooling with this victim act? Let me guess you're going to claim you were attacked by multiple men and that Grace orchestrated the whole thing?"

Alice slowly looked up. She had really been attacked by several men, and Grace was definitely behind it. Wasn't her condition proof enough?

Her clothes were in tatters, and her body was covered in marks. What better evidence could there be? But Liam's words hit her like ice water.

"Did you make those marks yourself too? I swear nothing honest ever comes out of your mouth. Years ago, you claimed your foster parents abused you, but it turns out that con man demanding money was your partner all along.

to your bank

like lightning had struck her. How could they

believed her over Alice. Liam pulled up the video on his phone, his

watched your livestream while

to drag Grace down with you. I'm telling you—I will never trust

from last night had been broadcast live. No wonder nobody came to

Grace must have arranged the livestream. She

afterward would never have occurred. Her body trembled, but her mind

anything she said. Even though she really had

tables had totally turned. Grace used to be in this position, where everything she said was automatically

the police and said, "I'm sorry-I was

terrible last night, but after a brief breakdown, she'd recovered with remarkable

the drift and removed the handcuffs. "Pull