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.

closed the door, she didn’t pretend to be cool anymore. She powerlessly leaned against the door

why he showed

Never!

identify whether the sound she heard came from the bathroom or the

would take him away

have to suffer from

would she hate

all she needed to do was to make

phone,

At that moment, no one knew

She stepped on the floor barefoot and walked towards the window. As she passed by the bed,

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

the window, and then the wind blew the rain into the room and rain dropped on her

come at the right time.” She murmured in

was so focused that she didn’t

she suddenly heard a noise. She looked back

that he had been standing there for a long

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

got

her

reached the door, Caden grabbed

are you

worriedly in deep

out. How ridiculous and ironic

her into the bedroom. Then he closed the door and said, “I’ll

more

morning, they continued their normal

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

Grace

gaze. His eyes were dark and shining with affection. She had to lower her head and eat

laughed at herself because she

and said solemnly to Caden who behaved

hope you

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

Grace felt that it was too

to have

One month passed.

got all things done in Italy. Humbert said it was not a

just smiled 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

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

There was an undetectable coldness

cooperation with Cayne would end. But the cooperation continued. However, Cayne seemed to

entered its second

the specific details of the cooperation as

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

is it

over, Grace was still thinking about whether she should visit her partner after

Leno brought her

patterns. There was no signature and no address on the surface of the envelope. She glanced at Leno and then opened

of paper floated down

“Ms. Grace James

read it silently, she reached out and asked Leno, “Do

asked. Meanwhile, he threw

turned on the