When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 277

We were on the cusp of securing that office space, just waiting for the investment from RF to come through.

Mark seemed taken aback when he heard I’d managed to rent an office despite the Myers family’s decree banning me from doing so in RiverCity. “You found one?”

“Yeah,” I nodded. “Seems like the landlord’s based overseas. Probably doesn’t care much about the Myers family. After all, out of sight, out of mind.”

“That’s a relief.”

Mark carefully dabbed antiseptic on my wounds, his voice full of worry, “This must hurt, right?”

“It’s bearable.”

I gritted through the pain, reminding myself over and over: No more being soft–hearted from now on.

This world has always been about the survival of the fittest, no good deed goes unpunished..

The next morning, Christine showed up at my place bright and early.

She burst through the door, surprised to find me already up. “Weren’t you injured? Why not rest a bit more?”

I set aside the fashion magazine, I was flipping through. “Did Mark tell you?”

he texted me

“Sorry,

I’m not in

be the judge of

lifting my shirt to inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you

ruffled her hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey in setting up our company is

to face her!” Christine didn’t even hear the rest of

stopped her, “What good will that do? Beat her up and then what? Either of us end up in

I do then?! Just

always ready to throw down, “I’ll go down with her, how about

won’t be

the promise I’d wrung

did she calm down a bit,

then asked, “Did you hear what I said

afraid of dragging her into

“Would you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece

way.”

for a

our way, we’d just have to play it

had marketing experience, I had my design skills. We were almost ready to get the company off

go of her plan

my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when

tried to hide