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.

him why he showed up and why

Never!

sound she heard came from the bathroom or the

that Ingemar would take him away as long

to suffer from the

she

do was to

phone, her hands were

At that moment, no one

barefoot and walked towards the window. As she passed by the bed, she threw her mobile phone onto

screen of her phone was still on. It was the interface of the address book which displayed

rain into the room and rain dropped on

come at the right time.” She murmured in a

before the window in concentration. She was so focused that

a noise. She looked back and saw Caden standing at the

but she actually felt that he had been standing there

they didn’t know what to say, as if

had got nothing to

her

she reached the door,

where are

worriedly in

almost laughed out. How ridiculous and ironic the

from her and pushed her into the bedroom.

more words all

the morning, they continued their normal

bedroom from the living room. After she dressed up, she sat down

than before. But Grace could

raised her head and met his gaze. His eyes were dark and shining with affection. She had to lower her head and eat breakfast to avoid meeting his

laughed at herself because she

and said solemnly to Caden who behaved like an innocent

I hope you get better

first and then he

Grace felt that

to have

One month passed.

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

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

her on the phone,

an undetectable coldness in

with Cayne would end. But the cooperation

cooperation had entered its second

to meet again to discuss the specific details of the

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

how is it going?” Grace

thinking about whether she should visit her partner after the

brought her a

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

paper floated down from

said, “Ms. Grace James

she read it silently, she reached out and asked

for?” Leno asked. Meanwhile, he threw a

turned on the