{"id":1304,"date":"2026-09-28T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-99\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:47:40","slug":"ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-99","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 99<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 99<\/p>\n<p>Jafar trembled in anger!<\/p>\n<p>He pointed at Grace, \u201cEvil! You&#8217;re an evil! Why did I have an evil daughter like you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace gritted her teeth while suppressing the sadness in her eyes. She was afraid that once she loosened her grit, she would say all the hateful words!<\/p>\n<p>She took a deep breath and tried her best to speak calmly, \u201cMr. James, Mrs. James, it&#8217;s late. You should go home early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both of her hands were red because of the boiling hot water, but she didn&#8217;t feel the pain.<\/p>\n<p>She never imagined that the first time they met after she went out of jail would be like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExplain to me the source of each and every penny!\u201d Jafar wouldn&#8217;t let Grace go.<\/p>\n<p>His angry eyes met hers, \u201cOr do I have to say it for you? This money is dirty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cdirty\u201d made Grace tremble!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet out! Get out of here!\u201d she still hung her head while firmly pointing the door, \u201cI&#8217;m going to call the police if you don&#8217;t get out of here! Tomorrow, the headline news will be the CEO and his wife from the James Group trespassed in the middle of the night!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes reddened. She could live without warmth and affection from her family, and she had also accepted the fact that she&#8217;s been abandoned. However, what made the husband and wife before her have any right to say that her money was dirty?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dare you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace didn&#8217;t say anything and took her phone out of her pocket. She really wanted to make a call in front of Jafar. Mrs. James dashed forward, \u201cGrace, don&#8217;t act rashly! Your father did that because he heard rumors. Your father was concerned about you too, otherwise he wouldn&#8217;t come here in the middle of the night! He wanted you to be good too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. James grabbed Grace&#8217;s phone.<\/p>\n<p>Jafar sneered, \u201cA few days ago, Patrick called in the middle night and said that Walter saw you at the Royal Club. I didn&#8217;t believe it so I told an acquaintance from the detective agency to find out about that. Today, the money on this table is an insult to me!<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t repent for your mistake from 3 years ago!<\/p>\n<p>After getting out of prison, you didn&#8217;t consider to be a better person and repent! You degenerated and went into that sensual place! You made us the James family embarrassed!<\/p>\n<p>I, Jafar, had become a joke in Shanghai!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grace clenched her teeth tightly and trembled all over! She closed her eyes\u2026 So stupid!<\/p>\n<p>When she saw this husband and wife today, she thought that they came in the middle of the night because they cherished and missed her.<\/p>\n<p>She even thought she should make all the regrets in her heart disappear since they had come to find her that day.<\/p>\n<p>She even thought they came to see her that day would at least mean that they still missed her and they just didn&#8217;t dare to offend that powerful man.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it was just her fantasy! How could she be so dumb!<\/p>\n<p>If they really came because they missed her, then they would already visit her after she went out of prison.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been half a year since she went out of prison. No one from the James family took the initiative to look for her, not this husband and wife, and not even Payne.<\/p>\n<p>But today they came in the middle of the night for her to reprimand and not to reminisce\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that they asked a detective from the detective agency to investigate her because Walter saw her at the Royal Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrace, tell your dad that those are all just a misunderstanding and someone else&#8217;s ulterior motive! Explain it clearly to your dad and don&#8217;t make him angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. James nervously grabbed Grace&#8217;s arms and kept persuading her.<\/p>\n<p>Grace&#8217;s palm that was placed beside her body was clenched so hard.<\/p>\n<p>The gentle and virtuous woman beside her is her mother!<\/p>\n<p>Her mother was helping her to \u201cspeak\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>But Grace felt hopeless every time she said something!<\/p>\n<p>Jafar looked cold on one side while waiting for Grace&#8217;s explanation. Did this husband and wife come today just to listen to her explanation?<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. James squatted and helped her fallen daughter up.<\/p>\n<p>Grace didn&#8217;t refuse it.<\/p>\n<p>She slowly raised her head and stopped hiding her broken voice too.<\/p>\n<p>She fabricated her voice to hide that hoarse voice, and it hurtled her so much that she didn&#8217;t want to speak anymore.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t want to let her biological parents hear her terrible voice, but she felt stupid again about it.<\/p>\n<p>They came to lecture and reprimand her, how could they care about her voice? They didn&#8217;t even care about her life, would they care about her broken voice?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. James, what you said was so nice! Why didn&#8217;t you help me on the day I got out of prison? Look at my face, you probably forgot that there&#8217;s no more Grace James in the James family. I was a prisoner and I have no past, relatives, nor background.<\/p>\n<p>Which convenience would let a person like me work there on the day I went out of prison?<\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t go to the Royal Club, I&#8217;d already been starving and sleeping on the streets. Where were you at that time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. James was the closest one to Grace.<\/p>\n<p>When Grace lifted her head up, she looked terrified.<\/p>\n<p>She loosened her hands that were holding Grace&#8217;s arms and fell to the floor in shock, \u201cYour, your, your face?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed at Grace&#8217;s face and thought about Grace&#8217;s voice, \u201cYour throat\u2026\u201d That&#8217;s not her Grace!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not her daughter!<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter was the proudest beauty in Shanghai!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, you\u2026 Who are you?!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1304","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1304","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=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}