Regret Came Too Late

Chapter 394

In Ethan's sight, a slim silhouette broke through the sea of white, the crimson flower in her hand burning like a tiny flame.

Grace went into the car, shaking the snow from her hair before pulling the door shut.

She immediately held out the magnolia to him.

Ethan didn't reach for it. His gaze stayed locked on the petals, on the snow melting slowly there.

Grace thought he hesitated because of the cold and leaned in to brush the snow away, only to be stopped by his question.

"What if this tree belonged to someone else?"

Without missing a beat, she answered, "When I pick them, they become yours."

Just as Ethan reached out, her words caught him off guard. His hand curled into a fist, and the veins on the back became rigid.

Grace, noticing his strange reaction, quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

He ducked his head and hummed quietly before taking the magnolia carefully.

"Thank you," he added in a soft voice.

Grace could tell that his mood had brightened.

She scrambled to the driver's seat, starting the car with quick, nervous moments, afraid he would change his mind and ask for something else.

As the car kicked into gear, the soft fragrance of magnolias from the back seat brushed against her senses.

"Do you like magnolias, Mr. Henderson? How special. Most people just see the winter's blank whiteness, but hidden inside... there's this bold flash of red, like..."

Realizing her words might be stepping over a line, she clamped her mouth shut. Ethan was a lot like winter itself. On the surface, he was cold and unapproachable -yet the moment he fell sick, he asked for flowers.

The contrast was almost ridiculous.

he said softly. "No

now, and Grace was glad she hadn't

seemed more

smiled faintly and floored the

we get a signal, you should call your people at Druville and have them send a helicopter. With the roads blocked, there's no way out. And you're still running a

you worried

Her smile faltered.

had the weirdest feeling about him right now—not bad, just... unfamiliar. Wasn't it normal to

You brought me here, Mr. Henderson. I can't just let anything happen

to show for

If you had told us ahead of

dragged you all the way out here while

his nose, a faint smile

"I didn't know."

Grace went silent immediately.

know. Perhaps he had only passed by that spot once, remembered it, and never

rearview mirror, and

down at the flower, gently swinging it back and

to say?" he

remember talking about it with my boyfriend once when we were kids, we got

was so sudden and patchy, she couldn't even tell if it

to check with Ed

his Adam's apple

people appreciate magnolias. Your

him a sidelong look, a

way of complimenting yourself,

almost snap the stem-

then that what she had just said might have sounded wrong. She rushed to add, "I mean, because you like

lowered his gaze, running a light fingertip across one of

with him

said nothing, eyes locked on the

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