Regret Came Too Late

After sending Maria off from the morgue, Grace didn't even know what to say.

Grace wanted to help out with Randy's funeral arrangements, but Maria only shook her head and insisted on leaving by bus.

Grace didn't press Maria to stay and could only stand there, giving Maria reminders repeatedly.

"If·

f you need my help with anything later, just give me a call," she said.

Maria looked through the bus window and nodded at Grace, then leaned back against the seat in exhaustion and fell asleep.

Grace stood there for a long while before turning to look at Yancey. His forehead

was sweating more profusely, and his lips had grown even paler.

Grace was about to ask him what was going on, but the next second, he collapsed right in front of her.

Frightened, she immediately rushed Yancey to the hospital, and when the doctor lifted his shirt, she finally saw the deep, crisscrossing whip marks on his back.

Some were so deep that the bone was visible.

family-who on earth would be

her mouth in shock as she found it hard to believe

from the Henderson family arrived shortly after.

moment Lily saw Grace, she wanted to slap Grace, but

body

weren't for you,

She didn't even know what happened to him, so how

saw Levi, whom she had met earlier that day,

way he stared at her was

and begged Grandpa to call off his engagement with Alice. He

so canceling it right

family punishment the Henderson

in an

and now that he was finally about to marry her, he

might have seen that video recently and decided he no longer wanted to be with Alice, who was insincere. But saying that he still

her. Lily's face was twisted with rage. "Grace, you can't leave right now. You have to stay here and wait until Yancey wakes up-otherwise, I won't forgive you." Grace drew in a deep breath. She thought that

his back. Especially when the fabric was stuck to his wounds,

waiting until just before dawn. Just then, she