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

her scar to me,”

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

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

Humbert didn’t think he’d persuade Caden, who was too cold and

he, actually, captured her in the palm of his

didn’t think Caden should be to blame as it’s hard for people like them to care for

picture as he

was shocked to drop his cigarette, which burned his arm on

hurts. “Wait up, what

asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden

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

he stared at the picture. Why did he think it implied

it as he studied on

Caden asked annoyingly, and

“What?”

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

tilted his jaw as he could picture Humbert’s words in his mind where a

heck

in your mind.” Humbert cut him off. “You can’t blame them as it’s your bad attitude and indifference that made her

blame me for not reminding

didn’t know about her when she was the daughter of family James, and you couldn’t know her better

words. It occurred to him the reason why Grace, a confident and