Regret Came Too Late

Anthony looked at Grace through the rearview mirror and suddenly said, "Maybe you can persuade Ed."

Grace looked at the flying snowflakes through the window, her gaze unfocused. "I don't know anything about his past. How can I persuade him?

"If he has an important reason for staying there and that's the only place he feels safe, is it really good for him when I ask him to leave in the name of love?"

As she said this, she slowly closed her eyes and leaned back. "There are so many times I don't even know how to get along with him."

She didn't know who owed the other in the first place, but she always instinctively felt the need to give in to him.

Anthony was a bit surprised, as he hadn't expected Grace to think so deeply. Grace was too rational-itwas easy for people to fall for her, but that clarity of hers was like a double-edged sword.

When the car stopped at a traffic light, he sighed. "Did he tell you about his brother?"

"He mentioned it a few times, but I don't really know anything specific."

She had thought Anthony would say something about it. But when the car started to move again, he didn't say a word.

After two hours, the car pulled up in front of the run-down villa. There wasn't any light coming out from the building, so it was difficult to know if anybody was in it.

of the car. When she

his eyes with the other. "His

it.

time, try spending more time with

and slightly took a breath

he had been thinking about using a medication that comes

cause him to hallucinate and

listen. Maybe you can try." Anthony, became a bit frustrated as he spoke. It was clear

have asked for Grace's help if he

walk away when Anthony pulled out a box of fever medicine

to the hospital. Go give

how could Ed be that careless in taking care of himself by refusing to go to

bad habit of sleeping on the couch outside instead of going to his bedroom. He would curl himself into a ball on it as if he were a poor little puppy abandoned

been so busy recently that she didn't really

followed her memories