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.

up.” When we arrived at Riverview Estate, he spoke before

at the door, I pursed my lips, “I’m You

“Okay.”

slightly, yet he didn’t

b

to enter my code, when the door was pulled open from the inside, revealing Christine’s radiant face. “You’re back I heard some noise

Christine in my apartment seemed to ease Bryant

joked, “So you expected me to come

course not! I might not be a cook, but Mark makes

her voice towards the kitchen,

realized then,

place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just called Steven and Mark, didn’t bother with

Chapter 38

decorations and trinkets around the place. It felt

warmth spread through me, as I suddenly felt a genuine sense

clear shift in Bryant’s expression, from sunny to a cold dreariness, in an

back?” Steven, who had been helping Mark in the kitchen, came running qut,

e door.

his pocket, looked at him with a

“Ahem…”

explain, “Bryant, I thought you were