I've Been There Before

At night, she could not sleep well. It rained late at night. The raindrops pattered on the window. She tossed and turned.

Hours later, she still did not feel sleepy at all.

She pulled away the quilt and walked down to the ground barefoot, pacing irritably in front of the window.

She put on her nightgown and walked barefoot into the living room. She turned on the TV and found there was a children’s show on TV. She was absent-minded for a moment. It occurred to her that she had not watched TV for a long time.

However, Caden often watched TV.

She lay on the sofa like Caden usually did. She was surprised by the cartoon named “Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf” on the screen.

Wolves eat sheep. This was the law of the jungle. Did he watched this cartoon every day?

A noise came from outside.

Grace got alert.

She listened carefully for minutes. She was sure that she heard a noise.

Was there a thief?

But that was impossible. Caden agreed to let her move out of the manor of the Shaw Family because the security measures were pretty good here.

Maybe there was a cat, or a dog, or a kid.

She opened the door.

...

She was shocked.

It was Caden!

Her heart beat fast.

They looked at each other for nearly five minutes, with no words.

She seemed to be calm.

However, when she saw his pleading eyes, she started to melt down.

She turned around and walked into her department.

The door wasn’t closed.

She didn’t look back or checked if he had come in. She walked into the bedroom and brought out a bathrobe and towel. When she returned to the living room, there was nobody. She looked at the door. He was standing there, staring at her.

She silently walked to the door and handed the towel and bathrobe to him.

She turned around again.

Just then, she saw the happiness in his eyes when he took the towel and bathrobe from her.

“Grace, you’re so nice.”

Suddenly, Caden’s voice appeared.

She stopped at the door of her bedroom and clenched her fist.

Then she entered her bedroom, ignoring all the sounds outside.

pretend to be cool anymore. She powerlessly leaned against the door … Caden, what

showed

Never!

held her phone. She couldn’t identify whether the sound she heard came

knew that Ingemar would take him away

she wouldn’t have to

she hate

needed to do was to make

clenched her phone, her

eyes … At that moment, no one

Her eyes suddenly opened. She stepped on the floor barefoot and walked towards the window. As she passed by

phone was still on. It was the interface of the address

the rain into the room

didn’t come at the right time.”

concentration. She was so focused that she didn’t noticed that the sound of water in bathroom wasn’t running

suddenly heard a noise. She looked back and saw

actually felt that he had been standing there for a

they didn’t know what to say, as if they were a couple

got nothing to

held her blanket, and

the door,

are

asked worriedly in

ridiculous

the blanket from her and pushed her into the bedroom. Then

no more

morning, they

the fragrance of the food floated into the bedroom from the living room. After she dressed up, she sat down

words than before. But Grace could

with affection. She had to lower her head and eat breakfast to avoid meeting

laughed at herself because she

around at the door and said solemnly to Caden who behaved like an innocent

you

daze at first and then he smiled.

warm, but Grace felt that

to have reached a tacit

One month passed.

Humbert got into trouble when he almost got all things done in Italy. Humbert said it

Humbert, “I thought you were kidding. Maybe you are picking up girls in Italy now and having a lot of fun. So, you don’t want to go

on the phone, “Yes, I’m having fun. But, I’m also

There was an

But the cooperation continued. However, Cayne seemed to

entered its second

to discuss the specific

knocked on the door of Grace’s office. The

is it going?” Grace

Grace was still thinking about whether she should visit her partner after the cooperation entered the second

Leno brought

was dyed with light blue ink patterns. There was no signature and no address on the surface of the envelope. She glanced at Leno and then opened the

piece of paper floated down

said, “Ms.

she read it silently, she reached out and

it for?” Leno asked. Meanwhile, he threw a lighter to

on