Chapter 46

Grace sat in the car and carefully cleaned the wound on her knee with a portable disinfectant spray. It would take two hours to get to Northbrook. She didn't have time to wait for it to heal. Mandy handed her a bottle of mineral water, her voice filled with grievance. "Grace, don't be sad. If I hear anyone talking bad about you, I'll set the record straight when I get back to the office." Grace gave her wound another spritz and chuckled. "It doesn't matter. People have mouths, and they'll say whatever they want. Let them." Mandy hesitated, then finally spoke up, "Actually, I have a friend in your department. No one there really likes you. But back then, you and Yancey got along pretty well. That was a few years ago, though. After that, for some reason, he fell for Alice." A few years ago? That must have been before Alice returned to the Lambert family. From the moment she came back, everything changed. "Grace, you and Yancey are engaged. It's not like he didn't like you before. H