When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 38

Otherwise, the Ferguson Group wouldn’t have ended up directly in Bryant’s hands.

“How about you? How have you been?” I lifted my gaze, looking up at the sharp lines of his jaw, and asked hesitantly.

“These three

years since we got married,” he managed a slight smile, sighed softly, and said, “it’s been good.”

That answer made me want to cry even more.

It was regret, wasn’t it? After all, if it hadn’t been for all those issues, we could have grown old together.

On our way back, we both remained silent, an unspoken agreement between us. Some things are better left unsaid.

He couldn’t truly change what was happening, and I couldn’t just live with it.

Better to let go now, while we could still look at each other without disdain.

Autumn days are short and the nights-long. Through the car window, the setting sun cast a golden glow over his figure.

arrived at

at the door,

“Okay.”

slightly, yet he didn’t

b

him, about to enter my code, when the door was pulled open from the inside, revealing Christine’s radiant face. “You’re

Christine in my apartment seemed to ease Bryant

“So you expected me to come back hungry, hoping

course not! I might not be a cook,

Bryant, raising her voice towards the

realized then, “Mark’s here

I just

Chapter 38

and trinkets around

felt a genuine sense

expression, from sunny to a cold dreariness,

the kitchen, came running qut, his playful smile fading into guilt

e door.

hand in his pocket, looked

“Ahem…”

to explain, “Bryant, I thought you were