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.

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

showed up

Never!

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

knew that Ingemar would take him away as

to suffer from the

would she

needed to do

clenched her phone,

… At that moment, no

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

It was the interface of

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

didn’t come at the right time.” She murmured

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

later, she suddenly heard a noise. She looked back and

actually felt that he had been standing there for a long

know what to say, as if they were a couple that had been married

had got

around, held her blanket, and

she reached the

are you

asked worriedly in deep

ridiculous and ironic

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

more words all

morning, they continued

door, the fragrance of the food floated into the bedroom from the living

words than before. But Grace could

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

because she tried to avoid

around at the door and said solemnly to

you get better

a daze at first and then he

Grace felt that

to have reached

One month passed.

when he almost got all things done in Italy. Humbert said it was not

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,

come back.” There was an undetectable coldness in Grace’s

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

cooperation had entered its

to meet again to discuss the specific details of the cooperation as well as nail down some details

The door opened and one

how is it going?”

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

paper floated down from the

said, “Ms. Grace James

she reached out and asked

Meanwhile, he

on the