Chapter 113
\nI’ve Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 113<\/p>\n
On the weekend, again, Franklin picked Grace up from her neighborhood and took her for lunch. Today Grace had a day off. The beef noodle restaurant in the night fair became the place which Grace and Franklin visited most.<\/p>\n
Noah had got accustomed to Franklin\u2019s taking her girlfriend to have beef noodles here.<\/p>\n
After lunch, Franklin took Grace to the cinema.<\/p>\n
Grace felt like she was in a dream. But the popcorn and drink in her hands were both reminding her that she was once again fooled by Franklin.<\/p>\n
However, still, a smile appeared on her lips and she didn\u2019t even notice it.<\/p>\n
Franklin was indeed a joy bringer. If he wanted to treat a woman well, the woman would feel like in paradise. Thinking about this, the smile on her face slowly faded away.<\/p>\n
She looked at the boy sitting beside with a complicated eye look and decided that after watching the movie today, she would tell Franklin straightforward…that she would not fall in love with him.<\/p>\n
She would tell him that this was the end.<\/p>\n
She admitted that she loved the way Franklin looked at her. Free of disdain, sarcasm, ridicule and contempt, his eye look made her feel like she was just an ordinary girl.<\/p>\n
She also admitted that she couldn\u2019t bear to part with the single light coming out from the silt. In darkness, it seemed more precious than anything.<\/p>\n
But things were going forward in an uncontrollable way…She couldn\u2019t respond to the love of this big boy pretending to be a man. Then she should just tell him frankly now.<\/p>\n
She was too deep in gut to deserve such a love.<\/p>\n
How could she drag him to gut with herself?<\/p>\n
Therefore, letting him go was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, her hand back was covered by a fit of warmth. As if burned, Grace looked down and saw Franklin\u2019s big hand holding her hand tightly. He said, \u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d The deep voice made her unable to shirk.<\/p>\n
With her heart beating fast, Grace didn\u2019t move and just let his hand keep covering hers and turned to watch the move like nothing happened.<\/p>\n
She was more certain that she would find a right timing to explain to Franklin…that she was not a good woman, and that she didn\u2019t deserve happiness. She couldn\u2019t respond to his feelings for her.<\/p>\n
At the beginning, she thought Franklin was just a big boy with strong curiosity. But then…everything that he did and the way he looked at her were too real to be a lie.<\/p>\n
On her left in darkness, a big smile burst out on Franklin\u2019s handsome face when she turned to watch the movie. In the smile, there was a universe of content and happiness. But Grace didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n
Grace wasn\u2019t paying attention to the movie at all. So after the movie, she had no idea what it talked about. She spent all the time thinking about how to lay it all out with the big boy beside her.<\/p>\n
After the ending, lights went on. Franklin kept holding Grace\u2019s hand and refused to let it go. Following the flow of people, he took her outside of the cinema.<\/p>\n
Grace became nervous and raised her head to look at the back of Franklin. Her palm was all wet and got sticky. She couldn\u2019t help but look at their holding hands and think, \u201cDoesn\u2019t he find two sticky hands holding together kind of uncomfortable?\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently, different from Grace who was laden with anxiety, Franklin was very happy. He took Grace to the parking lot and opened the door of front passenger seat for her, after which he got in the car too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d Franklin turned to her with confusion all over his face, \u201cYou want to buy anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
When she asked him to wait, what first occurred to him was that maybe she forgot to buy something…The better he treated her, the worse she felt.<\/p>\n
It was like something choked on her throat.<\/p>\n
Franklin continued, \u201cWhat\u2019s in your mind? It\u2019s weekend. We got plenty of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c…No,\u201d With firmness in her eyes, she bit the bullet and said, \u201cMr. Cordon, we can\u2019t…\u201d<\/p>\n
Right this moment, his phone rang.<\/p>\n
It couldn\u2019t be that hard!<\/p>\n
As a saint once said, where there is a will, there is a way.<\/p>\n
Then he stepped on the gas and drove back home at a fast speed.<\/p>\n
The Cordon family\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
Franklin\u2019s grandfather Duncan Franklin, whose hair had all gone grey, was born with a serous face. Now he looked even graver and gazed at Franklin in anger.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandfather.\u201d No matter how unbridled Franklin was on the outside, he behaved like a lamb before Duncan.<\/p>\n
Duncan was extremely stereotypical and tough, which became the reason why Franklin didn\u2019t like going back home.<\/p>\n
Duncan reached his hand backward, and the old butler instantly put a document bag on his hand.<\/p>\n
Bang! Duncan threw the bag before Franklin and said loudly, \u201cHave a look yourself. See how much Cordon Group has lost recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Franklin bent over and picked up the document bag without saying anything. He opened it and quickly browsed. The more he read, the graver he looked. Then he threw the bag on the tea table again, \u201cGrandfather, what happened?\u201d In less than half a month, Cordon Group\u2019s money had evaporated at an unbelievable speed.<\/p>\n
Though he liked seeking joy and was always reluctant to manage the company, it didn\u2019t mean that he wasn\u2019t capable of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow dare you to ask me what happened?\u201d Duncan snorted and pointed his finger at Franklin, shouting, \u201cYou better think carefully about whom you messed with recently! And who has the ability to push us so far that we have to take it seriously?\u201d<\/p>\n
All of a sudden, it dawned on Franklin!<\/p>\n
\u201cCaden Shaw!\u201d Franklin squeezed out these two words in fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1318","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1318","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=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}