I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 188

A person that said nothing was more terrifying than a person that yelled.

"Let go, Caden... Ah!" The words she could not finish disappeared in her throat. It was not necessary for her to say them anymore.

Caden was like going crazy. He put her on the bed and 'attacked' again and again as though hugging her tightly was the only way for him to feel the warmth of this woman, which assured him that she was still there and didn't leave.

After a rough sex, neither of them felt comfortable. She was like a broken doll, lying on the bed feebly. And him, he breathed heavily like a beast. The heavy sound of breath flooded from his throat bit by bit.

She didn't look at him. She would rather stare at the ceiling in a daze.

The man above her moved. He supported with his arms and got up. She felt lighter immediately. Even the bed beneath her was lighter. He got off the bed. The used decent man ignored his shoes and walked to the dresser with bare feet. He opened the drawer and took out the bottle.

Then he strode to the bed and stretched out his arm, "No more medicine?"

"You..." She instantly got flustered.

He sneered, "Vitamin pill, is it?" His thin lips curled up without any warmth of a human being. He used the other hand to open the bottle. His black eyes locked on the woman in front of him. He poured out a handful of pills. His lips curled up, and the coldness was more imposing.

He raised his head and stuffed all the pills into his mouth.

Grace's eyes widened at once. Before she could think about anything else, she rushed forth and grabbed his arm, "No! You can't take them!"

"Why not? Isn't it vitamin pills?" He smiled, but the smile was very strange, "Even you can take them, isn't it?"

"I... I..." What could she say? Tell him that this was not vitamin pill?

He chewed the pills while looking at this woman. The pills in his mouth were extremely bitter. No mention he ate a handful of them. Yet it seemed that he did not feel the bitter taste of the medicine in his mouth as though he was just chewing gums instead of medicine. He felt nothing.

Grace widened her mouth and every time when she wanted to say something, she found that she couldn't say anything.

She stared at his throat, watching him swallow every time. He was still chewing the pills. Her chest was somewhat painful for some reasons. She raised her head and looked into his eyes, "Spill them out."

"Why should I? Why so stingy? Don't even want to share some vitamin pills with me? I will buy you more if it runs out." He still talked to her sweetly, but his eyes were painful. His heart was like being torn apart by a pair of hands, making the sound of tearing things apart. He tried his best to ignore it. He thought this woman was loath to part with him in the end, otherwise, why would she care even if what he ate was poison? ... More ridiculously, he just realized that this was the last bargaining chip he had left!

Just because of this!

Just because of this...

She said, "It was not good to eat so many vitamin pills. Spill them out. Okay?"

Just because of this!

Just because of this...

He said, "Okay." The words that he was about say to reveal the truth were buried inside his heart. He continued to pretended to know nothing.

He spilled out the remnant of medicine in his mouth. He frowned and pretended to comment on the taste, "This vitamin pills are not good. Don't eat them next time. I will buy you some new ones."

Her expression changed instantly. She almost robbed the bottle from his hand and then explained with an unnatural expression, "I like the taste. I will wait until this one runs out."

He suddenly touched the back of her waist. And her whole body turned rigid instantly and her expression became more unnatural, "Don't touch me!"

She almost shouted and her eyes looked more painful and intolerable.

"Tell me. Will it be a coincidence that my kidney can fit in yours?"

Grace's expression changed and she retracted backward, "What do you mean?" She looked at the man in front warily.

"If there is something one for one in this world, then tell me. If I give you my kidney, can you give me something else?"

He looked at her gently.

As for Grace, she felt cold all over, "Stop playing... Stop playing, shall we? Didn't you say we should live on a happy life? Let's live on a happy life. No more jokes like this and don't think about things like this anymore."

She thought he had come up with new means to torture her. And she... She was afraid.

Caden listened to Grace's words. As she said "live on a happy life", he wanted to laugh and cry at the same time... It was rare to see that the invincible Caden Shaw to have such conflicting human emotions.

"Sure. If you say so, then we will live on a happy life." He put her head into his shoulder. In the place that she could not see, his left hand clenched into a fist.

"Grace... Why don't you ask about the thing that I want you to give me if I give you my kidney. Why don't you ask me what it is?" He whispered beside her ear.

He could clearly feel the woman's stiffness in his arms.

"Stop messing around, okay? It's not funny at all."

He heard her talk about other things in order to dodge the question and smiled lightly. His eyes grew gentler and there was a trace of gentleness as well as pain flashed across. He said lightly, "Okay, I will stop making this joke that isn't funny to you."

"The vitamin pills... Don't take them, okay?" The corner of Caden's eyes caught sight of Grace holding that bottle tightly even when she was hugged into his arms. He thought if she could compromise this time, he would immediately donate half of his estate to the society and the other half to raise her children. This would be enough.

The time was stopped. It was just a few seconds, but it was like a century long. He almost ran out of patience.

He just realized that he cared for this woman to the degree of insanity.

"Eat this bottle of pills... Don't waste them."

Boom!

The wall in his heart fell apart!

She still wanted to eat that damn "vitamin pills"!