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.

cool anymore. She

him why he showed up

Never!

She couldn’t identify whether the sound

would take him away as long

have to suffer

she hate

needed to do was

clenched her phone,

… At that moment, no one knew what

barefoot and walked towards the window. As she passed by the bed, she threw

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

blew the rain into the room and rain dropped on

the right time.” She

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

suddenly heard a noise. She looked back and saw Caden standing

she actually felt that he

that moment, they didn’t know what to say, as if

had got nothing to

turned around, held her blanket, and

as she reached the door, Caden grabbed her

where are you

asked worriedly in

How ridiculous and

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

had no more

they continued their

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

Grace could

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

at herself because she

door and said solemnly to

you get

in a daze at first and then he smiled.

warm, but Grace felt that

seemed to have reached

One month passed.

got all things done in

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

phone, “Yes, I’m having fun. But,

back.” There was an undetectable

thought her cooperation with Cayne would end. But the cooperation

entered its

specific details

office. The door opened and one of her old friend

is it going?” Grace greeted

was still thinking about whether she should visit

Leno brought her

was an envelope that was dyed with light blue ink patterns. There was no signature and no address on the surface

piece of paper floated down from

letter said, “Ms.

she reached out and asked

for?” Leno asked. Meanwhile, he

turned on