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

with herself, “Sorry,

I’m not in bad

the judge

her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call

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

Christine didn’t even hear the rest of my words, ready to storm

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

then?! Just let you suffer in

down, “I’ll go down with her, how about

be

shared with her the promise I’d wrung out of

did she calm down a bit, looking at

I assured her, then asked, “Did you hear what

of dragging her into

brushed off the concern, “Would you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If

way.”

pondered for a

way, we’d just have

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

let go of her

even more troubled than when she had

tried to hide her tablet,