I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 64

The instant Ruby raised her head, she looked into a pair of deep eyes by accident.

Even now, Ruby's cheeks were still colored by the blush.

She looked at Franklin, somewhat nervously, "Mr.…Mr. Cordon."

She blinked her eyes, hoping that Franklin could help and save her.

Franklin put the wine bottle in his hand down, then casted a gaze at Ruby and burst into a sudden laughter. Ruby's heart raced, and she was somewhat excited…sure enough, Mr. Cordon still remembered her.

"President Shaw, who is she?"

For a split second Ruby doubted her hearing. She felt like she was staying in an ice cellar.

Caden sat on the sofa with his slender legs crossed elegantly. "She? She said she has got a crush on Franklin. So I thought, since such an innocent girl is hooked on you, as your partner since childhood, I should lead her to come to you anyway, lest you miss your true love."

If Caden wanted to make Franklin feel disgusting, then Franklin expressed…he was really disgusted by Caden's remarks.

Miss true love?

Who?

"How can such a nasty woman be my true love?"

Ruby's lips quivered, she did not expect that she would be so unbearable for Franklin.

"Well, I've brought her here, and we can't simply let go of this thing." Caden snapped his fingers in the air. "Kirk, get the biggest bucket in Young Master Cordon's mansion, then fill it up with water and bring it to me."

Franklin rebuffed and sprang up from his seat immediately. "Stop!" His look was frozen. "Caden, it's my home, how dare you simply touch my thing without my permission."

Unhurriedly, Caden interlocked his fingers and gazed at Franklin's straight face.

"This is your home, so I can't touch the things in your house at will," Caden said slowly, but his face blazed with fury all of a sudden.

"Grace is mine, how dare you lay a finger on her without my permission!"

Even though Franklin had been grinning cheekily all along, at that moment, his eyelids twitched. Suddenly, he squinted his eyes and stared at Caden sitting on the sofa.

"So are you here today for Grace?"

He asked.

A standard smile crossed Caden's lips mechanically. "Yes and no."

With that, he lifted his chin and pointed at Ruby. "Why you hate this woman has nothing to do with me. I don't even care if you're going to teach her a lesson or deliberately torture her till death. But Franklin, don't you give your work the finishing touches?"

Caden's accusation was too obvious while his tone of voice was even frosty, making Franklin smell a rat.

"What do you mean?" Why did he involve Ruby again?

"Langston Du," Caden only spit out these two words. He fastened his gaze on Franklin, pointing at Ruby again, "Understand?"

After these words, there was nothing that Franklin could not understand and he could conceal nothing.

However, he really did not understand why Ruby had to do with Caden.

"I know she is your employee at the Royal Club." After consideration, Franklin thought that it might be because he had laid a finger on Caden's employee. Based on Caden's domineering personality, he was not sure what Caden would do.

"But isn't she all right? She's not dead."

At this time, Ruby had already crumpled to the floor.

If she still did not understand, then she was really an idiot.

It turned out that Mr. Cordon, whom she missed with her heart and soul, had really set her up on purpose. It occurred to her that Grace struggled desperately in the transparent container; her expression when she was suffocated; she pounded the wall of the container to ask for help…A shiver ran down her spine forcefully!

If she was not lucky enough, all this was meant to be gone through by her.

"Ladd, tell him."

Ladd began to speak mechanically, telling Franklin what happened that day concisely.

After Ladd finished his words, Franklin clenched his fists and looked toward Ruby on the ground. At this moment, he was in great confusion in his mind…he did not expect a lot of things to happen.

Caden's face was impassive, "Franklin, I don't care what you do to this woman, or even kill her. But you must do it well, don't goof up." Caden thought of Grace. "That day, if I couldn't go back in time, Grace was dead."

Franklin asked anxiously, "How is Grace?"

"She is fine, she's none of your business." Caden said blandly, "Mark my words, and keep your hands off her in the future. She is my belonging. Even if I don't want her, I don't need anyone else to care about her."

Franklin was as mad as hell at Caden's remarks!

"Caden, what do you think you are? Do you think everything in the world is in your hands? You said she is your belonging, does she really belong to you? If she is really your belonging, then do you know that her body is different from the others?"

He merely wanted to piss Caden off intentionally, but his words were no better than stirring up a hornets' nest.

Suddenly, Caden's stare became icy, he arose from his seat and walked up to Franklin. With a fierce look, he questioned coldly, "Say it! What do you know?!"

When Franklin looked at Caden who was blowing up, a flash of shock was in his eyes. However, Franklin was a sagacious person. Caden had always been wearing a poker face, but right now, he had lost his usual composure because of his fury.

Upon hearing Caden's question and seeing his face full of anger, Franklin figured it out after a short while. Caden definitely knew Grace's physical defect as well.

He dropped his eyelids to cover up his scheme, and when he lifted his eyes again, he showed even greater composure. "I know everything I should know. Not only do I know what makes her body different from others, but I've also touched it," Franklin said while a sinister smile curled up his lips. He leaned toward Caden and said, "It's on… her left back waist."

Caden's anger gradually faded from his finely chiseled face, but in his deep blue eyes, there was a lull before the storm.

He stared at Franklin for a while and finally he opened his thin lips slowly, "This is the last time."

What he said was completely baffling, but Franklin caught up with him… Caden was warning him that this was the last time and he could never lay a finger on Grace from now onwards.

Otherwise, they might be at war with each other next time.

Caden knew very well that Grace had lost her virginity to him, no matter what Franklin said today, he couldn't change this fact.

However, no matter there was not a shred of truth in Franklin's remarks; and no matter how Franklin knew that Grace's body was defective, at this moment, Caden couldn't wait to leave everything here behind and go back directly. He was eager to grab her in front of him and asked her why Franklin knew about it!

He glanced at Ruby out of the corner of his eye and meanwhile, Kirk came over. "Boss, the bucket has been filled with water as you ordered."

"Kirk, do it." Kirk had followed Caden for a long time, so he could get the gist whenever Caden gave an order. Immediately, he grabbed Ruby, pressing her head into the bucket full of water.

"Woe!"

Ruby struggled.

Caden raised his wrist, checking the time on the watch and counting indifferently on the side. "One, two… four minutes, time's up."

Only then did Kirk pull Ruby's head out of the water. Before that, Kirk did not yield an inch no matter how desperate Ruby struggled and she did not even have the strength to struggle anymore in the end.

Caden grabbed Ruby's arm and pushed her into Franklin's bosom. "Next, I'll leave her to you, so you can show your pity and tenderness."

After the words, he turned around and said, "Let's go."

He wanted to go back and asked Grace what she had done with Franklin and why would Franklin know about her physical defect!

Caden's face did not show any emotional upheaval. His charming face looked tranquil, but this was only the tranquility before the storm!