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 without

to

at her scar can tell me information you didn’t

smoke. “Send me the photo, and you’ll know

too cold and arrogant

Wallis as he, actually, captured her in the

be to blame as it’s hard for people like them to care for a woman. They were apt to confined

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 made Humbert exhaled

hurts. “Wait up, what did you

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

it…which was a picture of a “true” scar—a nasty one filling the whole

he think it implied Caden was unwilling to show him Grace’s bare

almost confirm it as he

you see it? Is it clear enough?” Caden asked annoyingly,

“What?”

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

could picture Humbert’s words in his mind where a twisting woman was pressed against the operation bed…His heart

heck was the

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

you ever blame me for not reminding you that what Grace had suffered

James, and you couldn’t know her better when she was

the reason why