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.

she didn’t pretend to be cool anymore.

never asked him why he showed up and why he came

Never!

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

would take him

to suffer from

would she hate

knew all she needed to do was to make a

phone, her hands

At that moment, no

walked towards the window. As she passed by the

screen of her phone was still on. It was the interface of the address book which displayed a name “Ingemar”.

the wind blew the rain into the room and rain dropped on her

come at the right time.” She murmured in

looked outside before the window in concentration. She was so focused that she didn’t noticed that the

heard a noise. She looked back and saw

but she actually felt that he had

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

had got nothing

her blanket,

she reached the

where are

asked worriedly in

almost laughed out. How ridiculous and ironic the question

her into the bedroom.

more words

in the morning, they

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

words than before. But Grace could still

were dark and shining with affection. She had to lower her head and eat breakfast to avoid

she tried

turned around at the door and said solemnly to

you get better

first and then he smiled. “Sure! I will get better as

Grace felt that it

seemed to have reached a tacit

One month passed.

heard that Humbert got into trouble when he almost got all things done in Italy. Humbert said it was not a big deal, but

and said to 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

said to her on the phone,

There was an undetectable coldness in

thought her cooperation with Cayne would end. But the cooperation continued.

entered its second

discuss the specific details of the cooperation as well

Grace’s office. The door opened and one of her

is it going?”

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

Leno brought

was dyed with light blue ink patterns. There was no signature and no address on the

of paper floated down from

letter said, “Ms. Grace

it silently, she reached out and asked Leno,

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

on