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

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

Christine suddenly said, “No, something’s

her forehead playfully

soon 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, shared the same bed. It woul be none of my concern

cozy restaurant known for its local comfort food, with Christine and me arriving first. When Mark showed up alone,

and asked,

tag along

between Steven and Christine, Mark hesitated before saying, “He was caught up with

on a blind date. His family is pushing for

marriage.

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

Steven was doomed from the

much like mine with

dreamed of marrying

Mark, I didn’t try

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

won first place,