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.”

down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You should wait

nodded, making

She carried it

choice in

Mark nor I objected.

side glance, observed me closely, his

“…Yeah.”

was no

to fall for the wrong

I might not have fallen for Bryant so deeply.

moon, but I had never dared to see him as my beacon, to carelessly fall for him.

most, like others, I’d cherished a fleeting crush, moving on after

helpless. Misunderstanding the cause for my sadness, he tried to comfort me, “Matters of the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already

kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable to stop myself from asking, “You’ve always known

his brows lightly, “What do

college, it was you who helped me.”

“Why… why