I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 58

His slender fingers touched the scar.

He could feel the unevenness.

It felt like his fingers were burned as he touched it.

“When it comes to a broken body like this, how could you torture her?” Humbert was still on the phone with his half-taunting tone.

But Caden ignored his teasing as his thumb caressed the scar. Suddenly, he did something so strange to her that he covered it with his palm.

Staring at his palm, he didn’t know what he was doing.

Hearing no voice, Humbert thought Caden had hung up on him.

But he didn’t end the call as he picked up a cigarette and lit it to savor the taste of Nicotine, while Caden said unassumingly, “It’s longer than my palm.”

“What?” Humbert paused a beat before figuring it out. “You mean Grace’s scar on her waist?” Humbert understood him as they had been best friends for so long.

“Even longer than your hand?” Humbert sucked up hard on his cigarette before bubbling a smokey circle.

“Which implies her surgeon was really inexperienced, so terrible that…

Well, when I was in the medical college, our teacher let us remove the human specimen’s kidneys for the first time, but we made the scar much smaller than Grace’s.”

“What do you mean?”

“It means, perhaps…No, it’s certain that her surgeon doesn’t have a medical certificate. You know, people like street surgeons.”

Street surgeon, surgeons without medical certificates.

“Picture her scar to me,” Humbert said.

Caden hesitated before Humbert said, “Just one glimpse at her scar can tell me information you didn’t discover. Don’t you want know it?”

Humbert exhaled white smoke. “Send me the photo, and you’ll know it.”

Seriously, Humbert didn’t think he’d persuade Caden, who was too cold and arrogant to understand others, except his endearing Wallis.

Well…Caden didn’t care for Wallis as he, actually, captured her in the palm of his hand.

But Humbert didn’t think Caden should be to blame as it’s hard for people like them to care for a woman. They were apt to confined their women to their social circle.

“Hold on.” Humbert didn’t think Caden could send him the picture as he was about to redirect by laughing, but Caden suddenly spoke two words.

Humbert was shocked to drop his cigarette, which burned his arm on his lap. The sudden pain made Humbert exhaled hard.

Fuck! It hurts. “Wait up, what did you say?”

Humbert’s cellphone popped out a message as he asked. “Well…” Holy crap. Caden did send him a picture.

He hastily tapped it…which was a picture of a “true” scar—a nasty one filling the whole picture.