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.

luck of being adopted by the Myers family, would you even

shouldn’t expect me to

hand, intending to slap me, but I pushed her away, glaring at her foot nearly stepping inside my home, my gaze filled with disgust, “Don’t dirty my

teeth, glaring at me with hatred. “You’ll see. “Since you don’t want to take

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

“So, you insist on clinging

do you think

me to have peace and refused a divorce, it was Bryant,

you said that. Given the current troubles of the Ferguson Group, a marriage alliance with the Myers family is the quickest and easiest solution! When Bryant proposes divorce, you better not cling

you a happy marriage and a

I moved

arrogantly stopped me, gritting her teeth. “You think I can’t do anything to you? Yeah.

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