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

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

fine, I’m not in

be the judge of

toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad shape‘? What

I gingerly touched my wrist, still sore, and ruffled her hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey in setting up our company is going to

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

that do? Beat her up and then what? Either of us end

Just let you

“I’ll go down with her,

won’t be in

her the promise I’d wrung

she calm down a

her, then asked, “Did you

was afraid of dragging her

concern, “Would you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If not, then

way.”

pondered for a moment,

we’d just have to play

skills. We were almost ready to get the company off the ground, just waiting on RF’s

of

even more troubled

me, she clumsily tried to hide her