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

scar to me,”

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

“Send me the photo, and

persuade Caden, who was too cold and arrogant to understand others,

care for Wallis as he, actually,

like them to care for a woman. They were apt to confined their women

picture as he was about to redirect by laughing, but Caden suddenly spoke two

his cigarette, which burned his arm on

hurts. “Wait up, what did

out a message as he asked. “Well…”

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

the picture. Why did he think it implied Caden was unwilling to show him Grace’s bare

as he studied on the

enough?” Caden asked annoyingly, and Humbert hastily answered, “I got

“What?”

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

mind where a twisting woman was pressed against the operation

the heck

the answer in your mind.” Humbert cut him off. “You can’t blame them as it’s your bad attitude and indifference that made her life a living hell for the past

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

daughter of family James, and you couldn’t know her better

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