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 …

him why he showed up and why

Never!

She couldn’t identify whether the sound she heard came from

knew that Ingemar would take him away as

wouldn’t have to suffer from the mixed

she

do was

her phone, her hands

… At that moment, no one knew what

She stepped on the floor barefoot and walked towards the window. As

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

blew the rain into the room and

come at the right time.” She murmured in a low

focused that she didn’t noticed that the

looked back

but she actually felt that he had been standing there

what to say, as if they

got nothing

held her blanket, and walked

reached the door, Caden

where are

worriedly in

How ridiculous and ironic the

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

had no more words all

morning, they continued

floated into the bedroom from the living

had fewer words than before. But Grace could still

shining with affection. She had to lower her head

laughed at herself because she tried to avoid his

around at the door and said solemnly

I hope you get better

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

was warm, but Grace felt

have reached

One month passed.

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

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 want to

jokingly said to her on the phone, “Yes, I’m having

come back.” There was an undetectable coldness

thought her cooperation with Cayne would end. But the cooperation

cooperation had entered

both sides were ought to meet again to discuss the specific

Vivian knocked on the door of Grace’s office. The door

Lo, how is it going?” Grace greeted

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

Leno 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

“Ms. Grace James

reached out and asked

asked. Meanwhile, he threw a lighter to

on the