I've Been There Before

Humbert and Ingemar didn’t know what mood Grace was in during this period.

When the door was opened, Caden was sent to the emergency room again.

The sound of hasty steps arose in the corridor. Everyone was nervous when Caden was in the emergency room.

It was as if Grace had been forgotten. Everyone focused their attention on the man being rescued.

No one was talking. It was not until the nightfall did the doctor declare that he has been saved.

However, it was not the end. During the five days after she arrived, the shadow of death had always covered him like this.

Five days and nights, eleven times.

She had counted. Every time he was sent to the emergency room, she counted one.

She didn’t know why she did it.

She didn’t even know if she still had the strength to hate and resent him.

She couldn’t even understand her own mind, not to mention Caden’s.

It was an early morning, a morning with a glimmer of hope.

She was sitting by the sickbed. Having be accustomed to quietly stare at his fleshless cheek all day and night, she was tired out but still didn’t dare to fall asleep.

forget. Sometimes, as if someone had bewitched her, she would come up with an evil thought––she would be free if

whenever she thought that he would die and leave her, her heart would ache, making

herself did not know whether she

him to wake up?” Humbert asked with his teeth

give

Won’t your heart ache if he can’t wake up?” Humbert pointed at his own chest and shouted at the woman

had already shouted out. Yes! It hurt! It

she just said like this, regardless of Humbert’s understanding. She was talking to Humbert, or maybe

met misfortunes of sorts. You asked me whether I would feel heartache if he couldn’t wake

in this way. But she found herself

He had no right to blame her, but he actually resented her

was the one sitting by the sickbed for several days

turned around and silently gazed at Caden

…

It was night.

she fell asleep out of

tired that she just fell asleep

she was woken up by

her eyes and found the sickbed surrounded

first. However, both of them looked excited and they were

widened