When Love Breaks by Jack

hapter 228C

It was Dorothy.

She stood in a puddle of what looked disturbingly like blood, her white ankle boots soaked through, as she watched me halt the action of closing the door. Slowly, she withdrew her hand and crossed her arms in front of her chest. “Jane, I’d advise you to back off. Stop messing around with Bryant.”

That she found my address so quickly was alarming.

I frowned, “Whether it’s you or Margaret, you’d better check yourself into a hospital or better yet, go bother Bryant. Don’t come here bothering me.”

“Huh, cut the act!” She glanced inside my house with disdain. I’ve done my homework. Without marrying Bryant, how could someone like you, with both parents gone and broke, afford such a place?”

She lifted her chin, exuding the kind of arrogance only the wealthy possess, in full display.

patience wore thin, and I replied coldly, “Oh, what about you? If it weren’t for the luck of being adopted by the Myers family, would you even be here, speaking like this, boldly

it hurt. Dorothy shouldn’t expect me to play

instantly turned vicious. She raised her hand, intending to slap me, but I pushed her away, glaring at her foot nearly stepping inside my home, my

glaring at me with hatred. “You’ll see. “Since you don’t want to take my advice or accept my

nice?” I shot back sarcastically, “Ms. Myers, I really

snapped, “So, you insist on clinging to

retorted, “With Bryant’s capabilities, do you think I

have peace and refused a divorce, it was Bryant, not me. They feared Bryant too much and only dared

Ferguson Group, a marriage alliance with the

won’t” I smiled, offering my sincerest blessings. “Then let me wish you a

I moved to close

Dorothy still wasn’t satisfied and arrogantly stopped me, gritting her teeth. “You think I can’t do anything to you? Yeah. Here’s RiverCity, unlike Vista Town, where I can do whatever I want, but dealing with

utterly baffled, giving her a cold look.

had agreed, so what was she