Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 277

We were on the cusp of securing that office space, just waiting for the investment from RF to come through.

Mark seemed taken aback when he heard I’d managed to rent an office despite the Myers family’s decree banning me from doing so in RiverCity. “You found one?”

“Yeah,” I nodded. “Seems like the landlord’s based overseas. Probably doesn’t care much about the Myers family. After all, out of sight, out of mind.”

“That’s a relief.”

Mark carefully dabbed antiseptic on my wounds, his voice full of worry, “This must hurt, right?”

“It’s bearable.”

I gritted through the pain, reminding myself over and over: No more being soft–hearted from now on.

This world has always been about the survival of the fittest, no good deed goes unpunished..

The next morning, Christine showed up at my place bright and early.

She burst through the door, surprised to find me already up. “Weren’t you injured? Why not rest a bit more?”

I set aside the fashion magazine, I was flipping through. “Did Mark tell you?”

“Yeah, he texted me last night.”

Christine dumped a bunch of groceries on the dining table, annoyed with herself, “Sorry, I went out drinking last night and only saw the message this morning.”

I’m not

the judge of that.”

marched over, lifting my shirt to inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad shape‘? What would you

gingerly touched my wrist, still sore, and ruffled her hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime

going to face her!” Christine didn’t even hear the rest of my words, ready to storm

“What good will that do? Beat her up and then what? Either of us end

Just let you suffer in vain?”

to throw down, “I’ll go down with

be in

promise I’d

then did she calm down a bit, looking at

asked, “Did you hear

of dragging her into

you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash?

way.”

pondered for a

come our way, we’d just have

my design skills. We were almost ready to get

of her plan for

looked even more troubled

tried to hide her

reaching out

the age of the internet. Reluctantly, she unlocked it

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