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.

we arrived at Riverview

up together. Standing at the door, I pursed my lips,

“Okay.”

nodded slightly, yet he

b

ignored him, about 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 at the door and thought it was

apartment seemed to

in, I joked, “So you expected me to come back hungry,

be a

at Bryant, raising her voice towards the

then, “Mark’s here

over. I just called Steven and Mark, didn’t bother with the others you’re

Chapter 38

noticed new decorations and

spread through me, as I suddenly felt a genuine sense

completely missed the clear shift in Bryant’s expression, from sunny

in the kitchen, came running qut, his playful smile fading into guilt upon seeing Bryant at

e door.

his pocket, looked at him with a

“Ahem…”

explain, “Bryant, I thought you were