{"id":1376,"date":"2026-09-28T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-171\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:11:40","slug":"ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-171","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/ive-been-there-before-grace-and-caden-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 171"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 171<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 171<\/p>\n<p>Not being humiliated, she heard the man\u2019s deep voice with a slight reprimand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let me see you run in a hurry next time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Caden said, he put down Grace&#8217;s legs. If she had taken care of her own body and health, he wouldn\u2019t give her a hard time.<\/p>\n<p>His cold eyes glanced at her feet again, \u201cWhere are your shoes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026\u2026?\u201d Shoes?<\/p>\n<p>What shoes?<\/p>\n<p>Following his eyes, Grace suddenly realized that in order to find Caden, she got up in a hurry, to express the anger that had been in her heart for a long time, she forgot to put on slippers and ran out of the house barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>So, was he just checking her feet?<\/p>\n<p>She felt absurd. When did he become so kind? Why did he care so much about her?<\/p>\n<p>At that moment.<\/p>\n<p>The mattress was suddenly lifted, a dark shadow appeared in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDress her up in half an hour.\u201d Caden lifted his wrist to look at the watch, giving an order in a low voice, and then he quietly turned to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Grace&#8217;s face changed suddenly!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait a minute!\u201d Hardly thinking, she reached out and grabbed his sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>Caden looked down at the sleeve, followed the hand on his sleeve, his black eyes were moving up slowly, suddenly fixed on her face.<\/p>\n<p>It was a meaningful glance.<\/p>\n<p>Grace\u2019s heart was flurried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else?\u201d he said in a magnetic voice with natural grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t go! I don\u2019t want to go!\u201d She was still determined.<\/p>\n<p>Her hand was tugging desperately at his sleeve, as if only by this way could express her determination: \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me a reason.\u201d She must give him a reason for refusing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI exactly don\u2019t want,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am afraid of the cold,\u201d she lowered her eyes to hide her emotion.<\/p>\n<p>There was a chuckle above her head, and then a hand rubbed her hair, he said in a low and soft voice, \u201cI want to know the real reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026\u2026\u201d The real reason&#8230; \u201cI just fear the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Grace was hanging her head down, the man\u2019s chuckle came again. Then he patted her head gently, pulling her hand away from his sleeve, and turning to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the footsteps dying away, Sam respectfully said, \u201cSir, take care!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the man was about to get out of the bedroom door.<\/p>\n<p>Grace felt completely flustered.<\/p>\n<p>She raised her head suddenly and said in a gruff voice, \u201cI exactly don\u2019t want to go. Can\u2019t it be my excuse?\u201d She was absolutely angry.<\/p>\n<p>The man, why did he always make decisions for others?<\/p>\n<p>The man did not turn round, but his deep voice went through her ears:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrace, Don\u2019t run away! Try to open your mind to get along with people. In the past, you have done these things very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not notice that the woman behind him, whose face suddenly became pale with a bit of fear.<\/p>\n<p>The feeling of being seen through was not wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Especially someone like her, she had already experienced many setbacks. She believed that she hid the feelings well, but she was seen right through by others.<\/p>\n<p>So mortally embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that there was bitter in Grace&#8217;s mouth, looking at the figure of the man leaving at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Sam deeply glanced at Grace in the room, and turned around to the styling designer, \u201cMr. Shaw preferred the woman to wear a white dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, Grace raised her head toward Sam. This was entirely intentional.<\/p>\n<p>Only Wallis liked to wear a white dress!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like the white dress!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actually, if she fell, it won&#8217;t be serious. Only the posture of the styling designer was not very graceful.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the buttons on her chest had broken off, revealing her shiny skin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The styling designer looked down at her collar, suddenly, her face became pale!<\/p>\n<p>All at once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiss James! You have gone too far!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Screaming, she stood up in a hurry. Rip!<\/p>\n<p>A rip!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone present was shocked, Grace was, too! Being in a trance, the styling designer, hurriedly grabbed tight the coat and stared angrily at Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sorry about it&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat&#8217;s cops used for if &#8220;sorry&#8221; works?\u201d the styling designer shouted angrily at Grace:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho do you think you are? You are just one of Mr. Shaw\u2019s mistresses!<\/p>\n<p>For the past three years, Mr. Shaw has brought me many beautiful women to dress up. White? What was wrong with the white?<\/p>\n<p>To tell you the truth, eight out of ten women that Mr. Shaw brought were wearing white dresses!<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think you are? Are you an exception?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Shaw only loves Wallis Venus, so the rest of the women are her substitutes. You should be satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boom!<\/p>\n<p>She seemed to have been struck by lightning!<\/p>\n<p>There were buzzing in her ears!<\/p>\n<p>Her hands were shaking in the air, which originally stretched out to the styling designer, but slowly turned to reach for the white dress.<\/p>\n<p>Her\u00a0heart\u00a0ached, she was crying with no tears, she was venting her anger in silence.<\/p>\n<p>She thought she had been released from her sufferings and past, even if not, she had been numb under the countless tortures. However the fact turned out to be that the pain would last forever in her heart no matter how much she had got used to the tortures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1376","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1376","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=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}