Regret Came Too Late (Grace and Ethan)

But no one answered Jodie's question as Tim had already got into the car.

Jodie stood there, feeling her blood boiling. She wished nothing more for Grace to die right then and there.

Her eyes were red-rimmed from crying. When she turned around, she bumped into Yancey, who was planning to go out.

She started crying again and couldn't help but ask, "Yancey, are you going to see Grace too?"

Yancey's expression was calm as he ruffled Jodie's head. "Jodie, go inside."

Jodie was too sad to talk, so she just went inside.

On the other hand, Yancey kept standing there. He stood for ten minutes, making his legs stiff and numb. Suddenly, his phone rangs, and a panicked voice came through it.

"Mr. Henderson, one of our men has died. The money you gave us doesn't even cover it. You need to pay for his death."

If Grace were here right now, she would definitely recognize his voice. It was Ronald, one of the kidnappers that wanted to kidnap her today.

Yancey let out a cold laugh. "How is five million dollars not enough? You guys are going through security soon, right? Relax, I've already transferred the money to an overseas account. Don't come back again."

Ronald stopped his words. He knew that five million dollars was enough to buy a person's life. Besides, they were gangsters—their lives were worthless.

What happened today was really complicated. Initially, it was Jodie who contacted them and told them to hit Grace with a car. She would give them 200 thousand dollars after that.

But then Yancey came to them and wanted to increase the amount by a million dollars. He wanted them not to hit Grace but to kidnap her to the suburbs and pretend to rape her.

They didn't understand why Yancey wanted to do this. They couldn't make sense of the twists and turns in wealthy families. In the end, they were just getting paid to do things.

But what happened with Grace was an accident. She was so ruthless that she took a life away with just a strike. That really scared them.

They thought the police would catch up to them soon, but they were surprised when Yancey contacted them to go abroad, and they were on the nearest flight within two hours. They don't even need to worry about anything in the country as someone would take care of everything.

Now that the police had an eye on them, going abroad was a good option for them to live a free life. So, they agreed without a second thought.

After hanging up the phone, Yancey smiled at the cloudy, dark sky, his thoughts indiscernible.

On Grace's side, her lawyer, Henry Hughes, had come.

The police officers who were assigned to chase after those gangsters had also come back to the police station. Even after investigating all major highways, they could only find the cars the gangsters had driven off. No one knew where they had gone.

Sitting on a chair, Grace calmly requested to investigate Jodie's account transactions. She wanted to know whether the kidnappers were hired by Jodie.

However, Jodie's account was under the bank's VIP membership. The police had no right to investigate it without the owner's consent, unless they were completely sure that Jodie was involved in this case.

Lowering her gaze, Grace suddenly thought of Yancey. She thought maybe he could check Jodie's account transactions, so she gave him a call.

She was surprised at how quickly he acted. He had sent her Jodie's recent bank transaction details within ten minutes.noveldrama

As she looked at the 200 thousand

dollar transaction to a foreign account, Grace submitted it straight to the police. This was the pay Jodie had given to the kidnappers. Ske hadn't wrongly accused Jodie this time-it was Jodie who was behind this.

The police checked and found that it was indeed the bank account of one of the kidnappers.

"Ms. Lambert, we can't find any information about the remaining living kidnappers, so we still can't determine whether it really was self-defense. But if you want to press charges on Ms. Henderson, we will continue the investigation."

Grace lowered her gazes and leaned back. "No need. The result will still be the same."

Either way, Ethan would still cover for Jodie.