When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 31

Glancing at the clock, it was already past 2 AM. Wasn’t Bryant supposed to have left work with Ma

Margaret? Instead, he ended up grabbing drinks with Steven, and from what Steven implied, Margaret wasn’t there..

y out of

Calling Steven again only led to the realization his phone was dead, probably battery.

Left with no choice, I changed and hailed a cab to their usual hangout spot, a private club they often frequented.

By the time I arrived, the crowd had mostly dispersed. Only Steven and Mark remained in the private room alongside Bryant, sprawled on a couch, dressed in a designer suit, his long legs crossed, deep in slumber.

Seeing me, Steven gave me a helpless look. “Jane, I don’t know what got into Bryant today. He kept egging Mark on to drink, and we couldn’t make him stop.”

I had a hunch about what might have triggered it. Bryant was still stubbornly convinced that there was something between Mark and me.

they’d never allow even a hint of infidelity from their wives, even if such a hint was

his drunken state. “Mark, are you okay? I brought some hangover pills. Do you

were hazy from the

waiting for candy, I placed the pill in his palm and handed him a glas of water. “I’m so sorry you had

telling me,” he lamented. “Bryant wouldn’t stop pouring, and despite our attempts to intervene, he drank everything

could process it all, he

“Yeah,” I said.

Bryant, I braced myself against the smell of alcohol and gently tapped his face. “Bryant, wake up. It’s

broke into a

spoke, he enveloped my hand in his. His

grew louder, clearly amused. See, Jane? Good thing

Chapter 31

Margaret. She’d be furious.”

Mark, sitting in the

strength was

car

driver’s seat, the first thing I did was roll down the windows. I used to be indifferent to the smell

were empty at this hour. Woken up in the middle of the night, on top of the day’s frustrations, I found myself aggressively alternating between the