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

asked him why he showed up and

Never!

the sound she heard came from the bathroom or the

him away as long as she

to suffer

would she

knew all she needed to do was to make a

phone, her

her eyes … At that moment,

on the floor barefoot and walked towards

screen of her phone was still on. It was the interface

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

didn’t come at the right time.” She

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

a noise. She looked back and

but she actually felt that he had been standing there for a long

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

had got nothing to

held her blanket, and

as she reached the door,

where are

asked worriedly

almost laughed out. How ridiculous and ironic the

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

had no more

they continued their

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

fewer words than before. But Grace could still sense the passion

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

at herself because she tried to

door and said

you

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

warm, but Grace felt that

seemed to have reached a

One month passed.

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

Humbert, “I thought you were kidding. Maybe you are picking up girls in Italy now and having a

phone, “Yes, I’m having

was an undetectable coldness in Grace’s

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

had entered its second

of both sides were ought to meet again to discuss the specific details of

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

how is it going?” Grace greeted

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

Leno brought her

no signature and no address on the surface of the envelope.

floated

“Ms. Grace James

she reached out and asked Leno,

for?” Leno asked. Meanwhile, he threw a

on