When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 62

“No, not at all.”

1 scrambled for an excuse, “I was just grabbing something.”

“That something?”

He gestured towards a delivery bag sitting on the dining table.

Feeling the awkwardness of being caught in a lie, I touched my nose, “Didn’t I tell the delivery guy not to ring the bell?”

“He didn’t ring the bell.”

“Then how did you know?”

“He knocked.”

I was speechless, internally cursing the delivery guy’s cleverness.

Walking over, I started to unpack the bag, ready to dig in, when Bryant placed a steaming bowl of seafood chowder in front of me..

much tonight, had the leftover seafood sent

“And the chowder…?”

“I made it.”

his voice calm and cool, “I took a shower before I cooked. You’ve been feeling under the weather, try to cut down

words stopped me in my tracks, leaving me

up, wasn’t “dirty” anymore before he made the chowder, so I wouldn’t

the chowder blurring my vision,

don’t have to

It made me hesitant.

indecision the most, don’t want to

hair behind my ear, his cool fingertips. grazing

each other?”

a moment, it felt as if we had returned to our

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still that gentle and considerate

only agreed to a month for Timothy’s sake.”

lingering. “In the past, it was always you taking care of me, taking care of Grandpa. This month, let me take good care of

but I

agree, nor could I bear to refuse. Logic didn’t allow it, yet my emotions desperately clung to this scant

heavy yet delicate atmosphere, Bryant seemed to carefully choose his

reached a point where divorce was the only