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?"

he and Ethan

not so easily fooled now. He threw the photo straight at Dylan's face. "If the one she likes is Ethan, then who's the man in this photo you gave

up a cigarette. "You idiot. Do I still need to stir things up between you and Grace? I didn't even do

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

followed her heart, placing all her affection and trust in Ethan. Isn't that

his fists tightly, consumed by a sense of humiliation he had

as a

completely forgot about

she had a boyfriend, but no one

she been lying all

to get Ethan's attention and started

the surface, they acted like they barely

the more

did his genuine affection mean? Had he just been toyed