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

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

she wanted him to

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

thinking twice, her soul had already shouted out. Yes! It hurt! It hurt

of pain before,” she just said like this, regardless of Humbert’s understanding. She was talking

feel heartache if he couldn’t wake up. Yes, it

in this way. But she found herself

Humbert clenched his fists tightly. He had no right to blame her, but he actually resented her for her

really cold and heartless, who was the one sitting by the sickbed for several days

Caden who was lying on the sickbed.

…

It was night.

the only night she fell asleep out of

tired that she just fell

she was woken up by a

eyes and found the sickbed surrounded by

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

dramatically widened