Chapter 58
\nI’ve Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 58<\/p>\n
His slender fingers touched the scar.<\/p>\n
He could feel the unevenness.<\/p>\n
It felt like his fingers were burned as he touched it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to a broken body like this, how could you torture her?\u201d Humbert was still on the phone with his half-taunting tone.<\/p>\n
But Caden ignored his teasing as his thumb caressed the scar. Suddenly, he did something so strange to her that he covered it with his palm.<\/p>\n
Staring at his palm, he didn\u2019t know what he was doing.<\/p>\n
Hearing no voice, Humbert thought Caden had hung up on him.<\/p>\n
But he didn\u2019t end the call as he picked up a cigarette and lit it to savor the taste of Nicotine, while Caden said unassumingly, \u201cIt\u2019s longer than my palm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d Humbert paused a beat before figuring it out. \u201cYou mean Grace\u2019s scar on her waist?\u201d Humbert understood him as they had been best friends for so long.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven longer than your hand?\u201d Humbert sucked up hard on his cigarette before bubbling a smokey circle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich implies her surgeon was really inexperienced, so terrible that\u2026<\/p>\n
Well, when I was in the medical college, our teacher let us remove the human specimen\u2019s kidneys for the first time, but we made the scar much smaller than Grace\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means, perhaps\u2026No, it\u2019s certain that her surgeon doesn\u2019t have a medical certificate. You know, people like street surgeons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Street surgeon, surgeons without medical certificates.<\/p>\n
\u201cPicture her scar to me,\u201d Humbert said.<\/p>\n
Caden hesitated before Humbert said, \u201cJust one glimpse at her scar can tell me information you didn\u2019t discover. Don\u2019t you want know it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Humbert exhaled white smoke. \u201cSend me the photo, and you\u2019ll know it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seriously, Humbert didn\u2019t think he\u2019d persuade Caden, who was too cold and arrogant to understand others, except his endearing Wallis.<\/p>\n
Well\u2026Caden didn\u2019t care for Wallis as he, actually, captured her in the palm of his hand.<\/p>\n
But Humbert didn\u2019t think Caden should be to blame as it\u2019s hard for people like them to care for a woman. They were apt to confined their women to their social circle.<\/p>\n
\u201cHold on.\u201d Humbert didn\u2019t think Caden could send him the picture as he was about to redirect by laughing, but Caden suddenly spoke two words.<\/p>\n
Humbert was shocked to drop his cigarette, which burned his arm on his lap. The sudden pain made Humbert exhaled hard.<\/p>\n
Fuck! It hurts. \u201cWait up, what did you say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Humbert\u2019s cellphone popped out a message as he asked. \u201cWell\u2026\u201d Holy crap. Caden did send him a picture.<\/p>\n
He hastily tapped it\u2026which was a picture of a \u201ctrue\u201d scar\u2014a nasty one filling the whole picture.<\/p>\n
Take her to hospital for better recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine. I\u2019ll take her to hospital by car.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I\u2019ll be there soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caden hung up on it after they agreed to meet in the hospital.<\/p>\n
He stood by Grace and stared at her, Humbert\u2019s words ringing in mind. \u201cIt\u2019s your bad attitude and indifference that made her life a living hell for the past three years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Was it so?<\/p>\n
He\u2019s already got the answer. So it was.<\/p>\n
But he never thought he\u2019d find a scar on her skin, which made him ache to kill.<\/p>\n
Stuck in the mess, Caden bent down and smoothed Grace\u2019s clothes, then he found out her cashmere coat to wrap her up. Now he could feel her bones as she was too thin, even if she dressed herself fat.<\/p>\n
He bent down and swept her off her feet. He used to carry her on his shoulder as he only cradled her in bridal style she wanted when she passed out.<\/p>\n
The lift went down to the ground floor. The door was open after the ringing.<\/p>\n
Curious glimpses and jealousy glares were all shot to the handsome tall man cradling a lovely small girl, who was walking across the hall of Royal Club before striding out of the front door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1263","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}