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

up together. Standing at the door, I

“Okay.”

slightly, yet

b

the inside, revealing Christine’s radiant face. “You’re back I heard some noise at

in my apartment seemed to

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

not be a cook, but Mark

her voice towards the

then, “Mark’s here

celebrating your new place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just called Steven and Mark, didn’t bother with the others you’re

Chapter 38

new decorations and trinkets around the place. It

spread through me, as I suddenly felt

expression,

who had been helping Mark in the kitchen, came running qut, his playful smile fading into guilt

e door.

pocket, looked at him with a half-smile, “You

“Ahem…”

scrambled to explain, “Bryant, I thought you were