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.

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

asked him why he showed up

Never!

She couldn’t identify whether the sound she

Ingemar would take him away as long as

have to suffer from the

she hate

needed to do was

her phone, her hands

moment,

the floor barefoot and walked towards the window. As she passed by the

interface of the address book which displayed

the window, and then the wind blew the rain into

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

She was so focused that she didn’t noticed that the

a noise. She looked

felt that he had

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

got nothing to

turned around, held her

as she reached the door, Caden

are you

worriedly

laughed out. How ridiculous and ironic the question

blanket from her and pushed her into the bedroom. Then he closed

had no more words

morning, they

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

had fewer words than before. But Grace

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

herself because she tried to

left, she turned around at the door and

hope you get

was in a daze at first and then he smiled. “Sure! I will get

was warm, but Grace felt that it

to have reached

One month passed.

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

are picking up girls in Italy now and having a lot of fun. So, you don’t want

her on the phone, “Yes, I’m having fun. But,

was an undetectable coldness in Grace’s

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

cooperation had entered its

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

the door of Grace’s office. The

how is it going?” Grace greeted

still thinking about whether she should visit her partner after the cooperation

Leno brought

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

of paper floated down from the

said, “Ms.

out and

it for?” Leno asked. Meanwhile, he threw a lighter to

on the