Chapter 212
After sending Maria off from the morgue, Grace didn’t even know what to say.
Grace wanted to help out with Randy’s funeral arrangements, but Maria only shook her head and insisted on leaving by bus.
Grace didn’t press Maria to stay and could only stand there, giving Maria reminders repeatedly.
“If·
f you need my help with anything later, just give me a call,” she said.
Maria looked through the bus window and nodded at Grace, then leaned back against the seat in exhaustion and fell asleep.
Grace stood there for a long while before turning to look at Yancey. His forehead
was sweating more profusely, and his lips had grown even paler.
Grace was about to ask him what was going on, but the next second, he collapsed right in front of her.
Frightened, she immediately rushed Yancey to the hospital, and when the doctor lifted his shirt, she finally saw the deep, crisscrossing whip marks on his back.
Some were so deep that the bone was visible.
Yancey was part of the Henderson family-who on earth would be this cruel?
Grace covered her mouth in shock as she found it hard to believe what she was seeing.
Someone from the Henderson family arrived shortly after. The first one to show up was Lily.
The moment Lily saw Grace, she wanted to slap Grace, but Alice caught her wrist in time to stop her.
Lily’s entire body was trembling.
“You jinx! You are a jinx! If it weren’t for you, how could Yancey have ended up like this?”
Grace found this ridiculous. She didn’t even know what happened to him, so how was it her fault?
Just as Grace was about to argue back, she saw Levi, whom she had met earlier that day, walk in.
His gaze made Grace very uncomfortable. The way he stared at her was still like staring at prey. A smirk flashed across his lips.
“Grace, you probably didn’t know. Yancey suddenly barged into Henderson Residence this evening. He kneeled and begged Grandpa to call off his engagement with Alice. He said he regretted it and that the one he liked was you.
“Grandpa himself arranged the engagement. The invitations had already been sent out, so canceling it right now would embarrass Grandpa and also tarnish the Henderson family name.
“So Grandpa flew into rage and invoked the family punishment the Henderson family punishment. Very few people can survive that.”
Grace’s expression turned grim in an instant. Yancey was totally insane!
He had been sneaking around with Alice for years, and now that he was finally about to marry her, he suddenly regretted it.
Yancey might have seen that video recently and decided he no longer wanted to be with Alice, who was insincere. But saying that he still liked Grace was absolutely a joke.
Grace turned around and wanted to leave, but she didn’t expect Lily to grab her. Lily’s face was twisted with rage. “Grace, you can’t leave right now. You have to stay here and wait until Yancey wakes up-otherwise, I won’t forgive you.” Grace drew in a deep breath. She thought that after all, Yancey had indeed helped her out this time, so she simply stood there and quietly waited for him to wake up.
But his injuries were so severe that it took the doctors three hours just to treat his wounds on his back. Especially when the fabric was stuck to his wounds, it had to be ripped away, and it ended up tearing some chunks of flesh off. Even in his unconscious state, he still couldn’t help but flinch from the pain.
Grace sat in the hallway, waiting until just before dawn. Just then, she got a message from Ed.
“Don’t think I don’t know. I know everything.”
She was pretty moody the entire night, but seeing his message made her suddenly smile.
This guy really was…
She explained everything to him truthfully, word by word, and emphasized it again.
“I’ll buy you a gift later, don’t be mad, I promise I won’t go to him next time,” she coaxed.
The reply came in quickly. He always responded to her messages in an instant, and it really showed how much he cared about her.
It warmed Grace’s heart. She didn’t like disappointing someone who was genuine
to her. She really could feel Ed’s sincerity; that was why she wasn’t strongly repulsed by him.
“I’m not mad. But you could come to me, you know.”
Her lips curled into a subtle smile. She really wanted to say, “What can a waiter
like you even do anything about it?”
This guy probably had no idea how powerful the Hendersons were.