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.

him and gaze at the face that she would never forget. Sometimes, as if someone had bewitched her, she would come up with an evil thought––she would be

would die and leave her, her heart would ache, making it almost impossible for her

she wanted him to

wake up?” Humbert asked with his

give

ache if he can’t wake up?” Humbert pointed at his own chest and shouted at the woman who didn’t even

soul had already shouted out. Yes! It

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

misfortunes of sorts. You asked me whether I would feel heartache if he couldn’t wake up. Yes, it hurt,

hurt in this way. But she found herself hard to breathe. “I’ll go out to take a

right to blame her,

cold and heartless, who was the one sitting by the

around and silently gazed at Caden who was lying on

…

It was night.

night she fell asleep out of

that she just fell asleep while

dawn, she was woken up

and found

opposite her first. However, both of them looked excited and they were gazing at

dramatically widened her