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

words, puzzled. “Yeah, you’re right. If Albert’s daughter, he wouldn’t just sit back and watch Bryant get involved with Margaret. That’s

nodded, not wanting to delve deeper, but Christine suddenly said, “No, something’s still off. It doesn’t add

her forehead playfully and handed her a bag of tomato-flavored

enough. Once I got the divorce papers, Bryar and I would be worlds apart, let alone Albert and Margaret. It wouldn’t matter if they we father and daughter or, just as Christine had bluntly put it,

food, with Christine and me arriving first. When Mark showed up alone, Christine glanced at him and twitched her mouth

the awkwardness and asked, “Mark,

used to tag along wherever Christine

relationship between Steven and Christine, Mark hesitated before

on a blind date. His family is pushing

marriage.

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sense of inevitable anger, though not completely surprised. I didn’t expect it to happen

was doomed

much like mine with

I would never have dreamed of marrying into

front of Mark, I

Christine brought up a new topic. “Jane, you represented the Ferguson

place, but you’ve resigned. What about