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.

dead of night, she would just sit next to him and gaze at the face that she would never forget. Sometimes, as if someone had bewitched her, she would come up with an

her, her heart would ache,

know whether she wanted him to be alive or

him to wake up?”

couldn’t give

own chest and shouted at the woman who didn’t even shed a single

her soul had already shouted out. Yes! It

pain before,” she just said like this, regardless of

pain and have met misfortunes of sorts. You asked me whether I would feel heartache if he

herself again and again as if it wouldn’t hurt in this way. But she found herself hard to breathe. “I’ll go out to take a

no right to blame

who was the one sitting by the sickbed

at Caden who was

…

It was night.

she

just fell asleep while bending over the

she was woken up by

found

and Ingemar who stood opposite her first. However, both of them looked excited and they were gazing at … She followed their gazes and abruptly

dramatically widened her