{"id":1291,"date":"2026-09-28T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-86\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:43:20","slug":"ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-86","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 86<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 86<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, do you hear that? That girl named Grace has been asking for business. She said she could do anything as long as she gets paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat woman must be out of mind because of money. But such a shameless bitch like her should not work in the Public Relation Department, I just can\u2019t figure about why she was appointed here. She belittled all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems that she hasn\u2019t got any money for the whole month. Did you just see she almost pester every one of us? She must be crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few female employees of the PR Department gossiped in the restroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, just stop talking about her. What a bummer! Come on. Let\u2019s go. I just heard that Mr. He has been here with his rich friends again. It has been a long time since I saw those playboys last time. Now they are in the VIP box in the sixth floor. Let\u2019s go to find them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, those women with heavy makeups went upstairs to the sixth floor.<\/p>\n<p>Grace still failed to get any chance to earn money though she had asked everyone around her foe help. She could only return to her room in the department office for rest.<\/p>\n<p>Time still gradually passed by.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria told her that Caden would arrive at the club in twenty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling depressed, Grace knew Caden a decisive man who never spared anyone any space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, Grace, come with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The door of the room was opened. Gloria stared at her with a poker face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas he arrived?\u201d Grace\u2019s heart skipped a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Grace felt so helpless like a homeless kid at that time. Grace took a deep breath and said calmly to Grace, \u201cBoss hasn\u2019t arrived yet. Just come with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gloria frowned, \u201cCome on, don\u2019t sit still. I will take you to my patron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace stood up immediately, \u201cI am coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gloria remained silent and let Grace upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sixed floor?\u201d Grace felt a bit weird.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the most honorable and generous guests could afford the box in the top floor,\u201d Gloria then stopped in front of a luxurious box, \u201cGrace, that\u2019s all I could do for you. I should be also prohibited to bring you here. But I want to keep you alive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace lowered her head. She knew what Gloria meant and she was also aware that Gloria had been struggling hard to make such decision to bring her here, \u201cThank you, Gloria. I got it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all I can do for you. It\u2019s up to you to make your own miracle.\u201d Gloria was about to knock the door.<\/p>\n<p>Grace suddenly stopped Gloria, \u201cGloria, since you know the guests in this box. Do you know their surnames?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of those surnames is He\u2026Hey, Grace, where are you going?\u201d Before Gloria finished, she saw Grace turned around and left with her ghastly pale face, \u201cWhat are you doing, Grace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gloria frowned out of doubt. She grabbed Grace\u2019s hand to stop her, and she happened to knock the door. Unexpectedly, one of those guests was in such a high spirit that he came to open the door himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, Gloria, didn\u2019t you say that you would bring a girl here? What takes you so long?\u201d Walter He stood at the door and he took a look at Grace. Though he didn\u2019t recognize she was Grace, he felt familiar with the dress on Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, aren\u2019t you the sweetie of Payne we just met in the elevator?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walter would definitely make her suffer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t bother, Mr. He.\u201d Grace said in a hoarse voice. Then she broke away from the grip of Walter and stepped into the box as calm as she could.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria also noticed that something unusual was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on, guys. Look at her, she is Grace James!\u201d Walter introduced with a smile when he entered the box.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, all the eyes in the box were fixed on Grace, with both judgment and mockery.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria decided to bail Grace out, \u201cWow, Mr. He, it turns out that you know her. But I am afraid that Grace had something else to deal with today. I will bring her here later to greet you. Now I need to leave with her.\u201d Then Gloria was about to hold Grace\u2019s hand to take her away.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria\u2019s face became solemn as she knew those rich guys were all born in the most powerful and privileged families in S City. They were not just simply upstarts.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria intended to ask, \u201cGrace, did you know Mr. He?\u201d She wanted to figure out what kind of feud Grace had with Walter.<\/p>\n<p>But Grace just remained silent.<\/p>\n<p>Walter replied with a smile, \u201cGloria, are you asking her whether she knows me? Tut, you must just settle down in S City, right? Perhaps you have never heard that the most proud and swanking girl in S City was none others than Grace James, the noble and talented lady born in the James Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. He. That is an old story. Let it be gone.\u201d Grace interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Walter sneered, \u201cLet it be gone? Hahaha\u2026Grace, I just heard from Gloria that one of her girl needed five hundred thousand dollars so badly. It is you, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright,\u201d Walter then took out a piece of check and thumped it onto the crystal table, \u201cGrace, let\u2019s me do me a favor. You can take the five hundred thousand dollars as long as you kneel down and slap yourself hard for one hundred times, plus claiming yourself that \u2018I, Grace James, am a sluttish bitch.\u2019 With each slap!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1291","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1291","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=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}