Lost Me Gained Regret

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Chapter 279

Barefoot, Christine dashed to the door, freezing momentarily upon opening it. “Mark, you… came to see Jane?”

“Yeah.” With a gentle smile, Mark stepped inside, glancing my way as he slipped off his shoes. “How are you feeling today? Still in pain?”

Seeing him again, even just after a night, made me feel strangely unworthy.

It was Mark who helped me out!

Noticing my daze, Mark chuckled, “Daydreaming?”

“No, not really.” I hastily shook my head, pulling myself back to the present to answer his earlier question. “Much better, not as painful as yesterday.”

“That’s good to hear.”

He placed a bag on the coffee table, “I swung by the pharmacy to pick up some scar treatment for you. Those injuries of yours are no joke, and even though they’re not on your face, we can’t be careless about them. We don’t want any scars.”

Feeling a mix of guilt and gratitude, I was more compliant than usual. “Yeah, I’ll use it when I change my dressings tonight.”

off for now.”

throughout, as Mark took off his white down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You

making

as Christine was about to close the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s on me tonight. You

best choice in

nor

soft clinking of utensils. Mark, with a side glance, observed me closely, his gaze

“…Yeah.”

was no denial.

years, mistaking someone else’s kindness for another’s had led me to fall for the wrong person. It was worth shedding a few tears over.

been mistaken, I might not have fallen

the calm after a storm, a bright distant moon, but I had never dared to see him as my beacon, to carelessly fall for him.

others, I’d cherished a

comfort me, “Matters of the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already on the path to divorce, and now with

yet unable to stop myself from asking, “You’ve always known

lightly,

just found out, back in college, it

looked at him earnestly, speaking softly, “Why… why