When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 4

“Fine.” I pursed my lips, ultimately deciding to leave a shred of dignity for him before Margaret. Or perhaps it was for my own sake.

For the moment, I couldn’t quite pin down Margaret’s purpose for her visit. Was she genuinely feeling she shouldn’t accept the necklace? Or was she there to declare. something?-

A flicker of emotion passed across Margaret’s face too swiftly to be caught. She smiled. “I was worried this necklace might cause some misunderstanding between you two. Seems like it hasn’t, so I’ll be heading back now.”

Emma escorted her out.

As soon as the front door closed, I stepped away from Bryant’s embrace, “You said it was for Steven, right? And Margaret’s married, isn’t she? Since when did she become one of Steven’s flings? Hmm…”

Bryant silenced me with a kiss, fierce and urgent, almost as if venting some frustration.

Only when I found it hard to breathe did he slightly loosen his hold, caressing my head as he admitted his fault. “I lied to you.”

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He pulled me close. “Margaret’s divorced. I was worried about her, so I gave her the gift.”

Then I got what Bryant meant by “Congrats on your fresh start” in the

my lip, half-doubting,

mother saved my life at the cost of her own. I couldn’t just

that from Emma. Bryant’s biological mother died during childbirth, and when he was five, his father remarried

stepmother, she was kind to Bryant, treating him as her child. She even went so far as to risk her

for that reason, it

a weight lift off my shoulders, yet I couldn’t help but gently remind him, “Bryant, I believe you just wanted to repay

necklace eventually ended

hadn’t completely vanished. They were

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Chapter 5

Chapter 5

needed to double-check to ensure

there was no mistake. Margaret, who parachuted to become the head of the Design Department, would be

know her?” Christine noticed my offbeat reaction,

“Yeah, Margaret is Bryant’s half-sister, the one I

as thieves

tongue. “Damn, talk about

quiet, nodding along to what

I’ve never even heard of her in the design circles. And Bryant, just like that, hands her the director’s spot? And you, what