I've Been There Before

“By the way, I won’t go to the James Group tomorrow morning.”

“You got something else to do?”

“I’m a little tired. I want to take a rest. Vivian, I’ll let you take charge of the James Group. Don’t let me down,” Grace said with a tired look on her face.

She told the half-truths and stood up. “I won’t keep you for dinner. I’m going to sleep. I don’t know why I get tired so easily these days.”

Hearing what she said, Vivian looked at Grace with concerns. “Take good care of yourself. Alright, I’m leaving. There’s no need to rush to work. I got you.

You even gave me the shares of the James Group. You really don’t regret it?”

Vivian was suspicious. Grace might do so to win Vivian over. But in fact, even if Grace hadn’t given her the shares, Vivian would still follow Grace.

When Vivian reached the door, Grace stopped her, “Wait.”

“Is there anything else?”

“We are no longer in our early twenties. Vivian, time and tide wait for no man. We already have wrinkles around the corners of our eyes.”

“That’s right. I remember when we were young. We used to laugh out loud and feel carefree. Now, we stop doing that.” The two laughed, feeling delighted. “Anyway, I’m leaving. You should have a good rest.”

“I’ll walk you to the elevator.”

“Why being so polite? It’s not like we’ll never see each other again.”

Laughing and joking, they left the room one after the other. The door opened and Vivian walked into the elevator. The moment the door was about to close, she looked up and saw Grace gazing at her with a smile. For some reason, her heart skipped a beat.

She shook her head, not knowing why.

Vivian left the building. On the way back, she felt a little uneasy.

But she had no idea what was wrong.

The next day....

A woman came to the hospital unobtrusively.

“Miss Grace, do you feel the same as you did yesterday?”

It was the same nurse who had injected her with the growth factor yesterday.

“How is his condition today?”

Grace asked.

“Please wait for a while. The hospital arranges medical examinations for Mr. James every day,” said the nurse, looking up at the clock, “Don’t worry. The report will come out soon.”

With that, a doctor in a white coat scurried over with a stack of documents in his hand, “Miss Grace, you just came at a good time.

This was Mr. Payne’s latest report.

indicator deviates from the normal level.”

doctor walked over to Grace, opened the report, and pointed at

is getting worse day by

condition continues to deteriorate, he may need more than a

blinked, “Tell me what’s

might suffer from kidney failure.” The doctor looked at the silent lady and pursed his

If she didn’t mistake what the doctor

the consequences

clenched

It couldn’t be….

need a kidney

her fists. Of course!

have been injected with growth factor. This’s the second day. Is

what you want to

we could wait until the day of the bone marrow

a moment

can’t guarantee what will happen.”

he took out another

condition…, we could only hope that Mr. James stays the

He made his point.

Grace understood him.

she

you really want

to remain anonymous

just one possibility. What if you are in danger

guard by the question. She hadn’t thought about what would happen after she donated her

her eyes. When she opened them again, her gaze was firm. “Please continue

it was like

didn’t seem to be afraid of death. She acted as if she didn’t care about

to speak

a dead tree, or a specimen, allowing the nurse beside her to poke the needle into

force and

turned around and was about to reprimand the person who pushed the door, she saw a tall

nurse was so scared that she almost bit her tongue.... The man was so terrifying!

heart skipped a beat and her hands were trembling. She tried to calm herself down, but her muscle seemed to have memories of itself and wouldn’t stop

face. His handsome face was ferocious and daunting. He

stable her trembling arms. She struggled to straighten her

him. However, what she was doing was ridiculous and childish and meaningless to

leather shoes thumped on the cold ground. The sound they made seemed to come from the depths of

Bang!

was another

with force and pushed her into the chair. He hit

his teeth and asked. Even so, his twitching cheeks showed that he was trying his best to suppress

and blanched at his icy

escaping again?”

man suppressed his wrath and whispered