Grace had mum Yancey since childhood. Even if most of those memories had faded, the ational pang of bitterness in her heart


    It had taken Allor only a short time to push her intoplete iztion.


    Withouta word, Grace yanked her hand free from Yancey''s grip and get into the car


    Yelp of frustration. Grace had never reared him this rally beina. Even if the wat


    ting on an art this time,


    "Grace" He stepped forward, intending to follow her into the car, but Alice''s voice ring out just then.


    "Yancey, what are you doing in south is ook?


    and then did Yancey remember why he hade and pointed to his cr


    bought you some food Mrs. Lambert made. She was worried you wouldc''t be insed to the food bece, to the specially asked me to bring them. It''s still warm. Do you want to have some? Carmen rath cooked her Alice''s eyes be up: "Really? Mam actualle cooked?


    "Yeah She''s been so worried about you these past few days that she has barely eaten anything".


    Alice nced at Grace. The car''s dim lighting made in hand to see her expression, but she could guess that Grace was feeling awful..


    be used to be so desperate for the Lambert family''s approval, willing to do anything for a single word of praise. Tel


    Carmen had almost never cooked for her.


    In their house, the household stati took care of everything, which only made these home-


    cooked meals all the more precious.


    Torace, you her been buny all day. Why don''t youe back and eat with us? I''m sure you miss Mom''s cooking too. ancey quickly stepped in "Mes: Lambert made the toad for you, not for Grace":


    "Yancey, don''t say that


    Grace didn''t respond she simply signaled the driver to start the cat


    Mandy, sitting healde het, was Juming Those two scumbags! They''ll get what''sing to them one day!"


    in Northbrook


    Guare closed


    her eyes, unwilling to waste another thought on them. Her mind was already preocupled with matters in


    Meanwhile, Alice''s eyes glowed with satisfaction as she watched Grace hurry awry,


    "Yancey,e eat with m


    Yancey nodded. For some reason, he felt a sense of salist. He hadn''t seen Grace''s expression clearly jest now, but she had to be hurting. And as long as she was hurt, it Alice happily took his atm and turned to courtyard. But she stopped in her tracks at the sight of someone sitting in the distance -


    it was Ethan.


    His presence was wverpowering. Even snared in a wheelcha, he was imposible to pre


    Alice had seen Erhan a few times before She had been awestruck back then.


    She used to fantasize about him. If a man like him ever fell for her, a


    (that make her the most distinguished woman in Druville?


    But after his ider, she had lost all interest. No matter how powerful he once was, he was just a cripple nos


    Besides, even when his legs had been perfectly fine, he had always treated her with indifference, which left a better taste in her mouth.


    When sheter heard about his injury, she had actually felt relieved. The perfect Ethan could belong to no one, so he was better off like this, crippled and alone for the rest of his Yancey quickly straightened up


    their intertwined hands. His tone was inutillerent. "Who


    told you to address m me like bat, Mu Lambert?


    Ador Bado'' experted him to be so blunt. Herexpression li oze, then her face Blushedcrimon


    But Brian was the current head of the Henderson family. Even if he was crippled,


    he remained at the very centre of power. He was someone no one could afford to offend


    Why? Why had he always be so cold ther? Why was like this


    Was the


    bestful enough to many men eder. Her family favored her above all else. Even Yay''s friend, Sloan, was obsessed with her, unable to state himself.


    In der expericiae, all it took was a leckoning hinger and a pariful nce andmen would tall over themselves to please het –


    except Ethan.


    Prilipum was precisely that separ Ichallenge. The more distant and testained he was, the more she wanted to see him long control fog het, to see him unravel. sit was die day, she would have


    1. "Unde Estan, my eng


    ? Ln, my engagement


    with Grace nothing but an empty farmality now. She''s the ute clurgin to it, talusing to let gu Lately, Grace had lean berdatant, for installerant. And strangely, that made him pate MANY.


    Dikan bathed away, his mate even toki i. "When you neatly


    downed, it was Guare leave you back then, you printed everyone that you''d marry her.


    nedkert i mean clone, Inn He''d had been hissesi became share had saved his lite,


    truer tinm, he had singly assumed she would always ke re. Andn always had been


    ?Allor''s voice was delicate, pur soft enough for only the two of them balera. "Tatory Thule Khan has always well. Do yosi Halnik


    "That''s in possilde!" Tatery cut her off immediately, a strange pain thing in ckest


    His expression darkened. "Ation, don''t say things like that. Thicle Ethan has never been interested in women. The only reason he wasevej podia Grace was because of me " esestment: She refused to ept that Ethan had even shown even a third of kinhessta Grace. She wanted to take whatever race hat


    [was just saying," she murmured


    Her gaze lingered on Ethan''s setseating figure, her eyes filled with greed as if she could already see the day he would worship her.


    And when that day came, she would y with him before cruelly discarding him, making sure he u Just the thinicht of it sent a thuillthrough her


    uffered because of ben.