When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 85

By the time I walked her home, the night had already cloaked the sky in its inky embrace.

Worried that she might not take good care of herself these next few days, I decided to stay over at her place.

The next morning, over breakfast, Christine kept sneaking glances at me.

I couldn’t help but laugh. “What’s up?”

She hemmed and hawed, then straightened up, “Uh, about that night Bryant got, um, drugged, your phone suddenly died, and I never got the chance to ask you.”

Confused, I asked, “Ask what?”

Leaning in, she flashed a mischievous smile, “Did you guys, you know, do it? With that kind of drug, it must have been quite the experience, huh?”

I was halfway through my pancakes when her question caught me off-guard, causing me to choke. I knew of her tendency to drop bombshells, but it still took me by surprise every

time.

Coughing, I tried to regain my composure, “No, we didn’t have sex.”

a napkin,

the first trimester

tossing the question back at her

of that night made

you really wanted to, there are plenty

an

did he get over it? Don’t

to my hand, teasing, “Or did you, you know,

was just the two of us, she lowered her voice, imbuing her words

“Christine!”

vall

her mouth “What are you even saying? Have

burst into laughter, looking at me as if shed figured it all

“Just eat your breakfast!”

“That’s a yes, then!”

can’t you keep

stuffed a piece of toast into her mouth, and she managed to suppress

swallowing, she suddenly said, “You know, now that I think of

“What?”

means the

was too much for me, but