I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 230

He regretted it.

When he saw the woman's stiff back, he began to regret it.

"Grace," the woman's voice was soft, and she seemed to be lost. Kern shook and looked anxiously at the woman at the entrance of the stairs, waiting for her to go on... “Who is it?”

Kern was shocked and looked incredulously at the figure that had stayed away.

He expected her to be angry. Se would be angry, she would question who he was, and how he knew her name.

But he had foreseen all the possibilities, except that she did not care about it so much.

She was so easy to deny the name, so wasn't it... she denied her existence?

For a moment, he was so timid that he did not have the courage to go after her and asked him what had happened.

Carol came with the medicine kit, and Kern looked at the girl's cheerful steps. It was always bright and cheerful, totally different with that woman.

Maybe that was why Grace would keep Carol, who was obviously not the best choice for the service industry, by her side.

"Ah, Mr. Kern, how did you break your hand so badly?"

Carol was innocent, and couldn’t sense the wired atmosphere, and Kern took her hand away. "I will let my assistant to deal with it." He said.

Carol didn't want any woman to stay close to him right now, even if she was a cheerful girl like Carol who really thought of him as her big brother.

The assistant stepped forward and took the alcohol swab from Carol's hand.

...

It was night, and the wind blew.

The temperature difference between day and night in Erhai Lake was sometimes greater than in the plain.

A woman was standing in the most remote shack in the Memory Inn.

She stood there frozen.

After a long time, the big wooden door was pushed open.

"I know you will be here."

The door was blocked by tall men.

Kern stared at the woman in the room, her thin lips moving,

"Are you not coming with me?"

His eyes looked deep, and at last he said,

"Here he comes."

Kern did not say who it was, but Kern saw that Grace, who seemed to be dying, became pale and panic as she heard the words.

For a moment he felt a slight ache in his heart, and suddenly he wanted to laugh. "I haven't said who 'he' is yet."

He laughed at himself.

What kind of influence that person had on her?

"Who?" The woman asked in a broken voice, feeling that her throat was very dry.

Kern closed his eyes and opened them again. "Can you stop acting like this... Grace, you make me feel down. Never in my life have I felt so decadent."

"I... am not a good woman. You can leave tomorrow," she said.

"Caden will be here soon. Really, won't you come with me?" He said, "I will take you away before it is too late. Or it will be too late to leave."

Kern could only see that the woman turned around, clutching the photo tightly to her chest, stood there, shook her head and said firmly, "I'm not going."