I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 85

The door of the elevator opened again. Grace simply stepped out of the elevator while ignoring Payne, but she was stopped by her brother, “No, Grace, you can’t go. Just hide yourself.”

“Mr. James, could you please let go of me. I have something else to deal with.”

“No, Grace, you will be spotted by them if you go out. Walter and his friends are having a party together in the club.” Payne pulled Grace back into the elevator, “Grace, you don’t want to appear in front of your old friends in such an embarrassing situation, right?”

Grace seemed to be out of breath. What Payne said directly pierced her heart. He was right. Grace dared not to meet her old friends in such an abject situation.

She reached out her head to press the key to close the door nervously.

“Well, Payne, it seemed that you have found your girl tonight. And you can’t wait that you even start to enjoy her in the elevator?” As Walter teased playfully, he reached his hand to stop the door from closing. Thus they door opened again.

Payne immediately hugged Grace tight and put her head into his arms, “Come on, Walter, stop making fun of me.” Then he slapped away Walter’s hand, who was about to touch Grace’s body, “Stop it, this girl is quite shy. You guys just go upstairs. I have already arranged a private box for all of you.”

While speaking, Payne still kept Grace’s face toward his arms and walked out of the elevator.

“Hey Payne, why not come with us?”

“I got some private issue to deal with. You guys just go to the box first. I will be right back. And today’s bill is on me. Have fun, guys.”

Ambiguous whistles in row could be heard from the elevator, “Guys, Payne said he got something private to deal with. Perhaps he gotta deal with the girl in his arms! Hahaha…It seems that Payne is getting more and more sophisticate in dealing with girls.”

Cayne could even hear their laughter when the door closed.

Payne led Grace to a corner, “Grace, get off work today.”

Grace’s heart twitched as she did not have the courage to face her old friends. But when her brother said such words in front of her, Grace could only hold back her urge to shout at Payne with her fingering pinching her thigh hard.

‘Grace, you are a prisoner. You were abandoned by your family three years ago. Don’t be sad, Grace. You have run out of all your tears during those three years.’ Grace kept comforting herself in her mind by repeating those words for dozens of times.

She raised her head and slapped away Payne’s hand, “Even if I get off work today, what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow? As long as the Royal Club exists, they would come to have fun from time to time. Perhaps I might still bump into them one day.”

She stared at Payne blankly, waiting for his answer.

“Grace, quit the job. You should go to somewhere else to earn yourself a living.”

“Quit the job? Are you going to introduce me a new one?” Grace sneered.

Grace was waiting, meanwhile, she was also eager to hear something unexpected from Payne. If her brother made an unusual choice for her, she would be willing to dissolve all her hatred and feud with her family, regardless of the suffering she had experience in that hellish prison.