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

to

scar can tell me information

“Send me the

too cold and arrogant to understand others,

Wallis as he, actually, captured her in the palm

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

the picture as he was about to redirect

drop his cigarette, which burned his arm on his

“Wait up, what did

asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden did send him

of a “true” scar—a nasty one

Why did he think it implied Caden was unwilling to show

as

clear enough?” Caden asked annoyingly, and Humbert

“What?”

the scar properly, not to mention triple mistakes. I even

in his mind where a twisting woman was pressed against the operation bed…His

the heck was the

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 three

blame me for not reminding you that what Grace

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

Humbert was shocked by his own words. It occurred to him the reason why Grace, a confident and lively girl, would turn out to be such a