I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 268

The moment the door opened, Grace swept off her exhaustion. A dazzling smile appeared on her face.

Leaning against the windowsill, Humbert tilted his head as the door opened. Catching sight of the extremely dazzling smile of Grace, he was shocked and became furious. But his anger disappeared at the next second.

“Come in,” he sighed. She definitely didn’t know that she looked dazzling at the first glance but hesitant the next, and anguished in the end.

However, she was still standing at the door, hesitant.

Humbert turned around and walked towards her. Unprepared, she was caught in. “Stop smiling. He can’t see it.”

Her smile stiffened.

“Got a shot in his left thorax, less than two centimeters from the heart.

He was sent to the hospital the moment it happened.

After an eight-hour operation, he was directly sent into the ICU.

He was kept alive but in no condition.”

“In no condition… How is that?”

Humbert took a close look at her and found her so-called fresh complexion was modified by her heavy makeup. He then observed her eyes, under which were dark shadows that even thick powder could not cover.

He did not answer, but drew back the curtains all of a sudden, showing her the scene inside.

Grace had never seen Caden like this before––he was lying on the sickbed, quiet and lifeless, with many tubes attached. Various medical instruments were placed around him.

Humbert’s voice came to her seemingly from a long distance, “You see, he can’t leave these at this moment.

We have to rely on these instruments to monitor his vital signs in real time.

Before you arrived, he had gone through emergency treatments five times.