I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden)

After that day, Grace James seemed to become another woman, humble and wordless, but even more obedient...to Caden Shaw. She followed whatever Caden ordered.

Even if Caden judged the sky was square, she also wouldn't refute that.

However, there was a great desire for freedom covered by obedience!

Grace was in a hurry to control Wei'ai Foundation. She paid all those conspiracies back to the James family. Grace appointed Vivian and her team members to be the powerful top managers, and also suppressed the rebellion as soon as possible, with overwhelming speed.

Vivian and her team members could deal with the detailed affairs, and what Grace should do was to trust them and share the power with them.

There was also one important matter she needed to solve, to visit those former partners of Wei'ai, and ask them for cooperation again. Grace was bound to face a lot of obstructions.

The rebellion in the company had been suppressed, but the company also suffered from that much. Grace's imposing methods definitely offended many people in the James family. Anyone who hated her much could easily figure out her plans, since she visited those former partners so frequently.

However, before she could persuade those former partners, there was another trouble waiting for her. A shocking video appeared in the private forum online of the company, in which Grace knelt down in front of a middle-aged bald man with a rounder stomach, she massaging the man's foot, and beside her was a big box filled with cash.

The video only took less than one minute, but it showed everyone that woman's degradation and meanness.

There was another "chaos" in Wei'ai Foundation. Grace could feel on those eyes to her were strange and meaningful.

She frowned. "What's going on?" Finally she couldn't help asking.

However, no one answered her question, but Grace was quite familiar with those eyes full of disdain and mocks.

The chronic fear broke into her mind again... The fear that Grace couldn't control, but was an after effect of being tortured for such long time.

It was like a conditioned reflex that once someone touched it, the fear would appear instantly.

Grace subconsciously raised her feet and wanted to escape from those eyes.

However, just as she was about to leave, an unknown object hit her. "You hangdog woman! You're not qualified to lead us! Get out of here!" Someone who had thrown it to her shouted all of a sudden.

It seemed that this man had opened the gate and set something horrible free. There were the second shouting, the third, and the forth... Numerous voices were cursing Grace, and numerous objects were thrown to her. There were spitballs, breakfasts, sandwiches, soy eggs, and even hamburgers...

In an instant, Grace was overwhelmed by those litters.

Ladd Shaw responded fast to cover her, but only he alone was not enough to stop so many people.

"Get out of here!"

"You're not qualified to be the boss of Wei'ai!"

"Dirty woman! You'll lead our company to die!"

The voice after voice got Grace's face paler and paler. Vivian and her team members finally came downstairs. "Miss James!"

"What are you doing? How dare you bully our president?"

"Stop!"

Vivian and her team members broke into the battle and kept shouting, but it was useless.

"Bully? Do you think such a dirty woman deserves our respect?"

Grace's face was pale. Suddenly, she pushed away Ladd, as well as Vivian who rushed over to cover her.

Grace staggered forward, but suddenly, a cup of coffee was flying to her head. Ladd hurriedly wanted to stop it, but it was too late. The cup hit Grace's head, and in an instant, the brown coffee drenched Grace, flowing down from her head to her body. Grace raised her hand to wipe the coffee on her face away, and she finally saw the screen on the computer beside her showing a video. The content of the video impaled her at once!

She managed to get close to the computer, clicked the button to replay the video. Her face got paler as the video restarted.

It was the scene when she served that man in the private room after she followed Celina Warner to attend that banquet!

Where did they get such a video?

Who shot this video?

Wait! According to the shooting angle...

Grace was suffocating for the unacceptable ache in her heart!

She even became numb as she watched the video replay over and over again.

"Miss James! Be careful!" Vivian hurriedly rushed to support Grace's falling body as she saw the woman's body shaking. "Miss James, are you okay?"

Vivian had watched that video, too, so her complexion was also mixed now. Grace was always proud and confident in her impression, so she was unable to related Grace to that mean woman in the video.

With a numb expression, Grace stared at the screen, even her eyes not moving a little bit. No one knew what she was thinking now.

"Miss James? Where are you going?" Grace suddenly pushed Vivian away, and then ran out in a panic.

Ladd followed her out.

"Leave me alone!" Grace suddenly turned back and shouted in a hoarse voice with all her energy.

It was raining outside. Grace staggered out of the gate, and fell down on the stairs. Regardless of the heavy downpour, she got up hard, rushed to the road, and reached out her hand to stop a cab.

"Young lady? Are you okay?" The driver gazed at the woman's pale face on the backseat, as pale as a ghost. "Are you sick? Do you need me to send you to a hospital?"

On the backseat, Grace tightly embraced herself, with a pale face. She could restrain her fear and pretend to be confident in public, but those eyes full of disdain after watching the video...kicked her into the nightmare again. She recalled the miserable memories when she was pulled by her hair, beaten up, and spat in disgust... Those memories kept her away from her dignity again.

Those eyes full of disgust and mocks in prison appeared again in the company.

Grace paid the fare and got off the car. It was the first time that she felt so urgent to enter the place she had always hated much.

What a funny joke! The house she had hated much now became her only shelter.

Grace looked around, and the bitter satire raised in her heart.

...

Caden rocketed back after he got the news.

The thick curtains were closed, and there was darkness in the room, without any light open. Caden searched around the house to look for that woman. Finally, he found her in a cabinet in the storeroom.

Caden's heart ached as he opened the door of the cabinet. The woman, with her arms embracing her legs, was huddling herself up in the corner of the cabinet. Caden could be sure that the woman's first reaction was to run as the door was opened, but the cabinet was not broad enough for her to run.

However, Caden was still suspicious of Grace's abnormal behavior.

Long after that day, when Caden found that video which was intentionally hid by someone, he finally realized why Grace was always used to staying in such cramped corners... The video explained everything that how that woman was locked up and teased in a tiny dog crate.

Only at that time did Caden understand why such a proud and bright woman had become so humble that even everyone despised her, in only three years.

At that time...he greatly itched to tear up all those people who had bullied her and ruined her life before, but the one he hated most, was just himself!