I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 39

Things were simple. It was so simple that all it took was for Grace to continue to cowardly and undignified comply with any of Ruby's unreasonable and even insulting demands.

 

But in the deepest part of her heart, she was greedy - she wanted that long-lost "respect" so that she didn't have to be like before and only needed to be like the most ordinary people to get the respect of "human" that she deserved.

 

But apparently, things didn't go as planned.

 

Since then, Grace hid her heart, which was riddled with holes, even deeper. She hid the things that her heart longed for in the depths of her soul, where no one could touch it. There were dark, cold, and lonely as when the deep sea was at its most still.

 

Ruby came and went. She always came at mealtime and left after delivering the food.

 

"I want to get out of the hospital” On the fourth night after the incident, Ruby, as grim as ever, put a take-out box on Grace's hospital bedside table, turned and prepared to leave. Behind her, the woman in the hospital bed who had been silent said slowly.

 

This coarse and slow voice caused Ruby, who had been indifferent for four days, to stop. She turned her head somewhat agitatedly and refused without thinking,

 

"No. You are not well enough’

 

Did she care about her? Grace looked fixedly at Ruby, "I'm better. My fever's gone. I want to work?

 

"You did that on purpose, didn't you? You want everyone to see the gauze on your forehead?" Ruby said angrily, "Grace, you are indeed something. The saying that you may know a person's face but not his mind is really true. I thought you were honest, but I didn't expect you to be such a schemer”

 

Grace lowered her eyelashes to hide the disappointment in her eyes. Sure enough, she thought too much. How could she care about her!

 

When she looked at Ruby again, Grace's eyes became a little numb, “I have to go to work. You're going to do the discharge papers”

 

With that, she lifted the covers, got out of bed slowly, and changed into the clothes she'd worn when she came.

 

Ruby's eyes widened in shock. Was Grace just ordering her?

 

She?

 

Grace?

 

Order her?

 

A sense of humiliation arose!

 

She watched as that woman who got out of the hospital bed limped slowly to the door. Even though she was walking slowly, she was indeed ready to leave the room. In other words, Grace was serious about what she said and wasn't joking!

 

She was really ready to leave the hospital!

 

How did this work!

 

Ruby's gaze fell on Grace's forehead in a flash of panic. She was still afraid. How could the cripple go back to the Royal Club before the gauze on her head was removed?

 

Without even thinking, she moved her feet to get in Grace's way, "Grace, why are you so cheap! Work? That's a nice way of putting it. People who don't know will think about how much you love to work and how much you love your job.

 

Your job? Isn't your job just to please men? You haven't recovered from your illness, and you're in such a hurry to please men? You just can't wait to be a bitch?

 

Or do you actually enjoy the process? Why else would you rush to the Royal Club despite your sick body?"

 

All Ruby could think about now was keeping Grace from going to the Royal Club, and she ignored how harsh her words were. The more she talked, the more silent Grace became. She just looked down at her toes. Her hands behind her back were clenched into fists and she couldn't stop shaking. She wanted to retort and explain so badly.

 

But she knew well enough that it was useless to retort her.

 

It was true that she got down on her knees for money.

 

It was true she got down on her knees and learned to wag tail like a dog just for more money.