I've Been There Before

His slender fingers touched the scar.

He could feel the unevenness.

It felt like his fingers were burned as he touched it.

“When it comes to a broken body like this, how could you torture her?” Humbert was still on the phone with his half-taunting tone.

But Caden ignored his teasing as his thumb caressed the scar. Suddenly, he did something so strange to her that he covered it with his palm.

Staring at his palm, he didn’t know what he was doing.

Hearing no voice, Humbert thought Caden had hung up on him.

But he didn’t end the call as he picked up a cigarette and lit it to savor the taste of Nicotine, while Caden said unassumingly, “It’s longer than my palm.”

“What?” Humbert paused a beat before figuring it out. “You mean Grace’s scar on her waist?” Humbert understood him as they had been best friends for so long.

“Even longer than your hand?” Humbert sucked up hard on his cigarette before bubbling a smokey circle.

“Which implies her surgeon was really inexperienced, so terrible that…

Well, when I was in the medical college, our teacher let us remove the human specimen’s kidneys for the first time, but we made the scar much smaller than Grace’s.”

“What do you mean?”

“It means, perhaps…No, it’s certain that her surgeon doesn’t have a medical certificate. You know, people like street surgeons.”

surgeon, surgeons without medical

scar to

Humbert said, “Just one glimpse at her scar can tell me information you didn’t discover. Don’t you want

white smoke. “Send me the photo,

think he’d persuade Caden, who was too

care for Wallis as he, actually, captured her in

like them

didn’t think Caden could send him the picture as he was about to redirect by laughing, but Caden

was shocked to drop his cigarette, which burned his arm on his lap. The sudden pain

It hurts. “Wait up,

he asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden did send

hastily tapped it…which was a picture of a “true” scar—a

felt weird as he stared at the picture. Why did he think it implied

as he studied on

Is it clear enough?” Caden asked annoyingly, and Humbert

“What?”

the scar properly,

Humbert’s words in his mind where a twisting woman was pressed

the heck

your mind.” Humbert cut him off. “You can’t blame them as it’s your bad attitude

acted mean. “Don’t you ever blame me for not reminding you that what Grace

she was the daughter of family James,

Humbert was shocked by his own words. It occurred to him the reason why Grace, a