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.”

me a napkin,

in the first

cleaned my mouth, tossing the

that night

suggestively, “Well, if you really wanted

an

get over it? Don’t

to herself, then her gaze dropped to my hand, teasing, “Or did you, you know,

though it was just the two of us, she lowered her voice, imbuing her words with a

“Christine!”

vall

cover her mouth “What are

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

“Just eat your breakfast!”

“That’s a yes, then!”

keep quiet even when

into her mouth, and she managed to suppress

I think of it, Bryant

“What?”

for… assistance. That means the baby can’t be his. He

too much for me, but the latter caught my