When Love Breaks by Jack

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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

hit where it hurt. Dorothy shouldn’t expect me to play nice

hand, intending to slap me, but I pushed her away, glaring

“You’ll see. “Since you don’t want to

on someone’s doorstep is being nice?” I shot back sarcastically, “Ms. Myers, I really can’t match

snapped, “So, you insist on clinging to

think I could refuse if he wanted a

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

my retort, Dorothy suddenly laughed. “Fine, if you said that. Given the current troubles of the Ferguson Group, a marriage alliance with the Myers family is the quickest and easiest solution!

let me wish you a happy marriage and a

that, I moved to close the

satisfied and arrogantly stopped me, gritting her teeth. “You think I can’t do anything

utterly baffled, giving her a

so what was she