When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

As autumn crept in, the days grew shorter and the nights longer.

When the car rolled into the driveway of the Ferguson Mansion, dusk had already wrapped its arms around the estate.

Colored lamps hung around the house, setting a festive mood that seemed out of a storybook.

I parked the car and stepped out with my bag, leaving the world behind me.

I had warned him over the phone, yet Timothy, stubborn as ever, was waiting in the yard.

for us.

Over the phone, I could hide my feelings, but in person, Timothy saw right through me. “Did that-rascal give you trouble again?” Timothy’s mustache twitched with concern, ready to jump to my defense.

“It’s nothing.” I didn’t want to get him worried, so I pulled him inside. “It’s chilly out here. Didn’t the breeze give you a headache?”

Though I tried to cover for Bryant, Timothy’s face darkened the moment he saw Bryant and Margaret step out of the car one after the other.

But with all family members there, Timothy held back his temper.

other hand, my father-in-law, Albert Ferguson, lit up seeing Margaret. “Bryant, I heard Margaret’s working at the company now.

hear that, focusing on my

glanced at me and said softly, “Yeah,

you too should help Bryant to ensure Margaret

concern that someone at the company might not be

“Don’t worry. Margaret is my boss now. If anything, I

the mood at the

can step down from my position anytime,” Margaret said,

I might have seemned a bit too

slammed his cup down, upset, his words sharp. “Step

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with! Do you think you’re entitled to it only

“Grandpa…”

don’t ‘grandpa’ me. I can’t bear it.” Timothy

accepted Margaret. He had fiercely opposed Teresa’s entry into

family’s fortune had been out of Albert’s reach, with only a modest allowance to

all alone in

“Enough!” Timothy snapped.

fond of Margaret, but it was the first time I’d

Margaret got up, flustered, “I shouldn’t have come today.

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