I've Been There Before

The sound of paper rustling wasn’t loud but the old man wasn’t careful and his hand bumped against a crystal ornament and his heart almost jumped out of him. He carefully arranged it back properly and calmed down.

He looked at the door guiltily and took a deep breath.

He was sure that there wouldn’t be anyone coming at this time and his actions weren’t rushed nor haphazard. He carefully erased any trace of his presence.

The document folder was exactly the same as the one he had in his hands.

This kind of document folder was easy to buy and there was nothing special about it.

Even so, the old man wasn’t satisfied and opened the folder in his hands and pulled out some documents, and then did the same to the folder on the table to compare.

“What are you doing in Boss’s study?”

A curious voice sounded behind his back and the old man who was comparing the documents was startled!

At that moment, he broke out in cold sweat.

He didn’t dare to turn around and slowly turned around... it was Kirk.

“You, didn’t you go with Master to the hospital?”

Kirk raised his eyebrow, “Sam, you haven’t answered me how were you able to enter Boss’s study?” The person who went with Boss to the hospital was Ladd and not him. Two days ago Boss assigned him to carry out another task.

In the past, Boss would have him and Ladd on either side of him but recently Boss preferred Ladd. Just like that day when Old Master Shaw fainted, in an emergency Boss chose Ladd to drive him and assigned Kirk to remain to guard the manor. In this incident, he felt that he had drifted further from the Boss.

When he was mulling these, he arrived on the second floor and heard some faint sounds coming from the study. Though the sound was soft, it raised his curiosity.

Master had clearly left the manor, so who could be in the study?

Kirk’s mind was racing and immediately thought of ... that woman!

Once Master wasn’t around, that woman will start messing around!

Kirk hated it when he thought about it.

This kind of hatred came from deep within him and can’t be faked easily.

about the woman’s sneaky actions, Kirk went towards the study and listened. Though the sound was faint, there was indeed some rustling sounds coming from inside the study. Kirk’s heart jumped... finally! Finally, he has caught the

alert her of his presence. He also wanted to find out what

also wanted to show Boss

of the light and he could only see a black figure. Kirk’s heartbeat raced... Finally! Finally, I caught you red-handed and in the

moment, Kirk was stunned, “What are you

He was immeasurably surprised!

but he asked in return. Furthermore,

face

snatched over

You can’t

Sam suppressed his voice.

pushed Sam away when he tried to take back the folder,

“Nothing!”

at these documents. But firstly, Sam’s actions were suspicious, and

Sam away, the other hand raising up the document to look. He didn’t mean to look at them in detail and only wanted to scare Sam, “Why can’t I look? Are these some shameful documents? I’ll see them

expect his eyes

and took up the

at Kirk and shouts, “You cannot see them,

Sam panicked.

away and he tripped over himself and fell

Are they real???” He couldn’t believe his eyes and his gaze fell on the document folder on the table. He remembered the black figure was comparing the documents... without delay, Kirk took out the

two sets of documents had very different ‘Truth

which was fake... it wasn’t important now. Kirk was clear that if what Sam had in his hands were fake, then why did he act so sneaky and came

sat on the floor and then crept on his knees towards Kirk and tugged on his trousers,

Kirk was shocked!

that this didn’t happen, I

of Wallis! Kirk, think about it, Wallis had been kind, gentle,

it, externally, Wallis was cherished by Master and everyone knew that. But Wallis’ good friend was Grace and she didn’t give up and

an inferiority complex and it was I who didn’t give her a good status in the family. She was just the daughter of a common family while Grace

Master would one day be

this enough? No matter how big the incident, isn’t a life enough

married that woman and that woman willingly married Master, isn’t this her wish all along? Why the need to dig up the past to analyze it?

was clean. I wish that in Master’s heart, she was always that kind, warm and timid little girl... Kirk, I beg of you! I’ll bow to you! Just treat it as if you had