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

her scar to me,” Humbert

hesitated before Humbert said, “Just one glimpse at her scar can tell

me the

persuade Caden, who was too cold and arrogant to

as he, actually, captured her in the palm of

Caden should be to blame as it’s hard for people like them to care

send him the picture as he was about to redirect by laughing, but

which burned his arm on his lap. The sudden pain made

hurts. “Wait up, what

out a message as he asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden did send him

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

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

almost confirm it as he studied on

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

“What?”

street surgeon’s work as the bitch didn’t needle the scar properly, not to mention triple mistakes. I even wonder did the bitch

as he could picture Humbert’s words in his mind where a twisting woman was pressed against the operation

the heck was

them as it’s your bad attitude and indifference that made her life a living

acted mean. “Don’t you ever blame me for not reminding you that what Grace had suffered was more than a nasty

of family James,

words. It occurred to him the reason why Grace,