Regret Came Too Late (Grace and Ethan)

Alice was clenching her fists by her side so tightly that her palm was almost bleeding. Her face bore a forced smile.

"No, it's okay. I should apologize to you for what happened last time," she said through gritted teeth.

Grace inspected the handbag. She had to admit, Liam really had a good eye for things like this. At least this was a handbag she could carry in public. It wasn't too eye-catching, yet elegant.

She raised her hand and ran her fingers through his hair, giving him a gentle scruff. "Thank you."

Liam suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He had actually been feeling guilty over the last time he helped convince Grace to admit something she didn't do in the first place. But looking at her right now, he let out a sigh of relief as she didn't seem too bothered by it.

Alice slowly walked into the room. She still spoke in a gentle tone, which caught Grace a little off guard.

From Grace's point of view, Alice had always been lacking in sophistication. Why did she seem particularly composed tonight?

"Hey, Grace. I'm going to try on some wedding dresses tomorrow. You can come along with me if you're free."

"No, I won't be free. I need to go to work."

Alice felt slightly better because Grace would have to witness a man she loved marrying someone else. It would probably be so unbearable for Grace that she might end up drowning her sorrows in alcohol tonight.

Alice was only acting so calm right now because she was forcing herself to hold it together.

"Yancey wants me to tell you that everything that happened in the past is in the past, and he also hopes that you can get over it soon."

Grace found this very ironic and looked up at her.

"I really wish he meant what he said. It's clear that I've already moved on, but he hasn't. He was following me around all day, and I couldn't lose him no matter what I did.

"You're his future wife, so shouldn't you have a word with him about that instead?" Alice's face turned pale in an instant, and she felt like she was about to collapse. She wanted to come here and taunt Grace, but everything she had said so far had backfired.

The tension in the room grew more suffocating for a moment.

Grace, however, remained calm as she turned away. "If there's nothing else from you two, please leave. I need to clean up my stuff."

Liam quickly grabbed Alice's hand and left the room. He was worried that those two would start fighting again.

Grace swiftly shut the door, and her gaze quickly swept across the room.

This room had a simple layout, and all of the drawers were in plain sight. She opened the wardrobe and found a small hidden drawer that was locked.

She followed her instincts and rummaged through the coats hanging inside and soon found a key.

To solve her current predicament, she had to know a bit more about her past self. Otherwise, she wouldn't have a single clue about where to look first.

She opened the small drawer but didn't end up finding anything useful in there. There was only a rather thin notebook with a single sentence written on the cover that said, "Do not trust Ethan."

Her grip on the notebook immediately tightened, and even her breathing turned softer. Did she write this herself in the past?

Grace flipped through the pages in the notebook, hoping to find more clues. But all she found were blank pages, there was nothing else.

She kept looking around in the house, but there was barely anything inside. It was

as if she had never truly treated this place like her home.noveldrama

She pressed her fingers between her brows in frustration. Other than the thin notebook, she found absolutely nothing.

She slipped the notebook into her handbag and opened the door. As she was leaving, she heard a commotion coming from downstairs.

"What the hell is wrong with this man? Didn't we already give him a lot of money? But he still won't leave us alone!

"If you ask me, we might have to take some extreme measures at this point."

It was Carmen's voice. She sounded so enraged that she even started bringing up the possibility of hiring a professional assassin.

Alice's sobbing could also be heard. She was begging Carmen not to call the police. She didn't want anyone else to know about whatever she was going through.

Grace slowly walked downstairs. She was surprised to see four people in the living room, all looking distressed.

"What's going on?" she asked.

Alice stopped crying for a brief moment. Her eyes were red-rimmed and swollen. "Oh, it's nothing... Just some crazy relatives from my foster parents' side found out I'm getting married and decided to come harass us. snovel

"They've been coming to my mom asking for money over the past few years. She always gave them what they wanted, but now they're demanding even more. They want 30 million dollars!"

Grace wasn't familiar with Alice's foster family, and she couldn't care less about them either. She was just going to leave the house.

But just as she opened the front door, she could hear a man furiously shouting from the outside.

"Come on! I dare you! I already called the cops before coming here! If you don't want to see me dead right in front of your house, then stay the hell away from me!"

The man was holding a kitchen knife against his throat, his eyes filled with madness. The moment he spotted Alice, a flicker of excitement flashed across his face.

"Alice, I finally get to see you now! I'm begging you, just give me a little more money. 30 million dollars isn't much, and I promise this is the last time I'll ever gamble.

"If you don't give me the money, I'll post all the photos of you getting beaten up online! So what if you're daddy's little princess? Everyone will know about your shameful past, and they'll all look down on you! Hahaha!"

Alice immediately broke down and fell to her knees on the ground.

"Please, don't do this! Haven't you taken enough money from us over the years?"

The man's body stiffened up. Judging from the twisted look on his face, it seemed he had already lost his sanity.

"Ha! Not enough! 30 million dollars is just like a grain of salt to you people. If I don't see the money in my bank account within three minutes, I'll post the photos immediately!"