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.”

handed me a

I’m in the first trimester of my pregnancy, how

my mouth, tossing the question back

the memory of that

really wanted to, there

felt an

did he get over it? Don’t

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

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

“Christine!”

vall

mouth “What are you

me as if shed

“Just eat your breakfast!”

“That’s a yes, then!”

can’t you keep

toast into her mouth, and she

I think of it, Bryant does have his redeeming

“What?”

woman, he came back home to you for… assistance. That means the baby can’t be his. He wouldn’t even touch Margaret,

her statement was too much for me, but the latter