When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 157

A stock clerk pushing a cart interrupted us, “Excuse me, coming through.”

1 tugged Christine back and asked, “What were you saying?”

“Do you think Margaret could be Albert’s biological daughter?” Christine’s eyes sparkled with the thrill of gossip.

I frowned. “That seems a bit far-fetched. Margaret’s even older than Bryant by two years.”

Even if it were an affair, it wouldn’t have started that early, right?

“Why not?” Christine dismissed my doubt with a wave, excitedly diving into high society scandals. “You know how messy these rich people can get. Marrying one, keeping a few mistresses on the side, isn’t that business as usual?”

“But still…” I hesitated, “If Margaret was Albert’s flesh and blood, and considering how much Timothy despised Margaret, why didn’t Albert tell Timothy?”

That way, Timothy would have been kinder to his granddaughter.

at were

If Albert’s daughter, he wouldn’t just sit back and watch Bryant get involved with Margaret.

suddenly said, “No, something’s

none of our business, anyway.” I poked her forehead playfully and handed her a bag of tomato-flavored chips. “Here,

apart, let alone Albert and Margaret. It wouldn’t matter if they we father and daughter or, just as Christine had bluntly put it, shared the

we chose a cozy restaurant known for its local comfort food, with Christine and me

through the awkwardness and

used to tag along

and Christine, Mark

on a blind date.

marriage.

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was momentarily stunned, feeling a sense of inevitable anger, though not completely surprised. I didn’t expect it to

was

much like mine with

have dreamed of marrying

front of Mark, I didn’t try

Christine brought up a new topic. “Jane, you

won first place,