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?”

texted

a bunch of groceries on the dining table, annoyed with herself, “Sorry, I went

I’m not in bad

the judge of

reddening with anger,

my wrist, still sore, and ruffled her hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our

hear the rest of my words,

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

I do then?! Just

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

be

with her the promise I’d

a bit,

her, then asked, “Did you hear

was afraid of dragging her

on Janedream because of

way.”

for a moment,

our way, we’d just have to play it by

had my design skills. We were almost ready to get the company off the ground, just waiting

let go of her

my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than

me, she clumsily tried to hide