I've Been There Before (Grace and Caden) novel Chapter 99

Jafar trembled in anger!

He pointed at Grace, “Evil! You're an evil! Why did I have an evil daughter like you!”

Grace gritted her teeth while suppressing the sadness in her eyes. She was afraid that once she loosened her grit, she would say all the hateful words!

She took a deep breath and tried her best to speak calmly, “Mr. James, Mrs. James, it's late. You should go home early.”

Both of her hands were red because of the boiling hot water, but she didn't feel the pain.

She never imagined that the first time they met after she went out of jail would be like this.

“Explain to me the source of each and every penny!” Jafar wouldn't let Grace go.

His angry eyes met hers, “Or do I have to say it for you? This money is dirty!”

The word “dirty” made Grace tremble!

“Get out! Get out of here!” she still hung her head while firmly pointing the door, “I'm going to call the police if you don't get out of here! Tomorrow, the headline news will be the CEO and his wife from the James Group trespassed in the middle of the night!”

Her eyes reddened. She could live without warmth and affection from her family, and she had also accepted the fact that she's been abandoned. However, what made the husband and wife before her have any right to say that her money was dirty?

“How dare you!”

Grace didn't say anything and took her phone out of her pocket. She really wanted to make a call in front of Jafar. Mrs. James dashed forward, “Grace, don't act rashly! Your father did that because he heard rumors. Your father was concerned about you too, otherwise he wouldn't come here in the middle of the night! He wanted you to be good too.”

Mrs. James grabbed Grace's phone.

Jafar sneered, “A few days ago, Patrick called in the middle night and said that Walter saw you at the Royal Club. I didn't believe it so I told an acquaintance from the detective agency to find out about that. Today, the money on this table is an insult to me!

You didn't repent for your mistake from 3 years ago!

After getting out of prison, you didn't consider to be a better person and repent! You degenerated and went into that sensual place! You made us the James family embarrassed!

I, Jafar, had become a joke in Shanghai!”

Grace clenched her teeth tightly and trembled all over! She closed her eyes… So stupid!

When she saw this husband and wife today, she thought that they came in the middle of the night because they cherished and missed her.

She even thought she should make all the regrets in her heart disappear since they had come to find her that day.

She even thought they came to see her that day would at least mean that they still missed her and they just didn't dare to offend that powerful man.

After all, it was just her fantasy! How could she be so dumb!

If they really came because they missed her, then they would already visit her after she went out of prison.

It's been half a year since she went out of prison. No one from the James family took the initiative to look for her, not this husband and wife, and not even Payne.

But today they came in the middle of the night for her to reprimand and not to reminisce…

It turned out that they asked a detective from the detective agency to investigate her because Walter saw her at the Royal Club.

“Grace, tell your dad that those are all just a misunderstanding and someone else's ulterior motive! Explain it clearly to your dad and don't make him angry.”

Mrs. James nervously grabbed Grace's arms and kept persuading her.

Grace's palm that was placed beside her body was clenched so hard.

The gentle and virtuous woman beside her is her mother!

Her mother was helping her to “speak”!

But Grace felt hopeless every time she said something!

Jafar looked cold on one side while waiting for Grace's explanation. Did this husband and wife come today just to listen to her explanation?

… Grace hung her head low.

Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter that sounded a bit painful, resentful, and deadly.

“Grace, what's wrong? Don't scare me.” Mrs. James was the closest one to Grace.

That laugh was shockingly weird, Mrs. James' heart shook in fear.

“There's no misunderstanding and no ulterior motive! I do work at the Royal Club, what does Mrs. James want me to explain to Mr. James?

Explain that I had knelt and wagged my butt on the floor like a dog in front of a guest for money?

Or explain that I was hugged, touched, and kissed by different guys for money?

Or explain that I was using my body to beg for money in a man's bed…”

Okay…

“Smack!”

Grace was slapped harshly and fell to the floor before she finished her words.

Jafar trembled in anger and glared angrily with cold eyes at his daughter who fell to the floor,

“Evil! You're an evil!! How did I have an evil child like you?! After getting out of prison, you didn't try to change and be a better person! You went and become a prostitute instead! You unexpectedly went to Royal Club and did those despicable actions!”

Change? Be a better person?

"Haha." Grace laughed, there was a clear five fingers mark on her slapped face.

She asked lifelessly, “Mr. James, tell me... How should I change and be a better person?”

“You should just go to a convenience store and be a waiter there, that's better than being a prostitute!”

Jafar angrily said those words! He was looking at Grace like she's his enemy!

Mrs. James squatted and helped her fallen daughter up.

Grace didn't refuse it.

She slowly raised her head and stopped hiding her broken voice too.

She fabricated her voice to hide that hoarse voice, and it hurtled her so much that she didn't want to speak anymore.

She didn't want to let her biological parents hear her terrible voice, but she felt stupid again about it.

They came to lecture and reprimand her, how could they care about her voice? They didn't even care about her life, would they care about her broken voice?

“Mr. James, what you said was so nice! Why didn't you help me on the day I got out of prison? Look at my face, you probably forgot that there's no more Grace James in the James family. I was a prisoner and I have no past, relatives, nor background.

Which convenience would let a person like me work there on the day I went out of prison?

If I didn't go to the Royal Club, I'd already been starving and sleeping on the streets. Where were you at that time?”

Mrs. James was the closest one to Grace.

When Grace lifted her head up, she looked terrified.

She loosened her hands that were holding Grace's arms and fell to the floor in shock, “Your, your, your face?”

She pointed at Grace's face and thought about Grace's voice, “Your throat…” That's not her Grace!

That's not her daughter!

Her daughter was the proudest beauty in Shanghai!

“You, you… Who are you?!”