Regret Came Too Late

Yancey looked up at the person in front of him, but the strands of his hair kept dripping water down into his eyes, blurring his vision and making it hard to see clearly.

He felt a sharp sting in his eyes. Rubbing them hard with both his hands, he could finally take a good look at the person standing in front of him. It was Dylan.

Yancey immediately turned his head away. "What are you doing here?"

Dylan noticed Yancey's slightly swollen eyes and swiftly handed a photo over to him.

"Yancey, do you know why Grace used to treat you so well back then? She was treating you as a substitute. The person she truly likes is someone else. I only managed to take a photo of his back. Doesn't he look a little like you? But this definitely isn't you.

"When Grace still treated you well, didn't you ever feel like she was seeing someone else through you? The person she truly liked probably got into some trouble, and afterward, she used you as a source of comfort."

"That's impossible!" Yancey instantly stood up, shouting back in denial with red eyes brimming with tears. He snatched the photo that Dylan had handed him.

Dylan had played a trick on the photo. It only showed the back of the unknown man, with no trace of Ethan holding a gun inside the frame anymore.

Dylan raised his hand and patted Yancey's shoulder. "Whether it's real or not, I'm sure you can tell. I even suspect that maybe Grace had her eyes on Ethan back then. That's why she did whatever she could to cling to you just to get Ethan's attention. How else would you explain why Ethan showed up at her graduation ceremony?"

paler, but he and Ethan

Ethan, then who's the man in this photo you gave me? That's not

I still need to stir things up

she likes Ethan or the man in it. I still haven't figured out the identity of this man. But if Ethan really

she woke up, she followed her heart, placing all her

fists tightly, consumed by a sense of humiliation

the past, even treating it as a joke and telling everyone about it. He never thought that Grace had only ever seen him

she completely forgot

she had a boyfriend, but no one had ever seen who this man

she been lying all along?

Yancey to get Ethan's attention and started a

they acted like they barely knew each other to

the more twisted his face became. In

affection mean? Had