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.”

surgeons

to

scar can tell me information you didn’t discover. Don’t

“Send me the photo, and

he’d persuade Caden, who was too cold

actually, captured

should be to blame as it’s hard for people like them to care for a woman.

the picture as he was about to redirect by laughing,

arm on his lap. The sudden pain

“Wait up,

as he asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden

picture of a “true”

he stared at the picture. Why did he think it implied Caden was unwilling

could almost confirm it as he studied

you see it? Is it clear enough?” Caden asked annoyingly, and Humbert hastily answered,

“What?”

properly, not to mention triple mistakes.

mind where

heck was

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

“Don’t you ever blame me for not reminding

she was the daughter of family James,

his own words. It occurred to him the reason why Grace, a