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

table, annoyed with herself, “Sorry, I went out

fine, I’m not

be the judge of

inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad

she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey in setting

even hear the

her up and then what? Either of us end up in a worse

Just let you

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

be in

with her the promise I’d wrung

she calm down a bit, looking at me

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

was afraid of dragging

of Dorothy, a

way.”

pondered for a moment,

our way, we’d

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

Christine let go of

my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when

tried to hide