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

bunch of groceries on the dining table, annoyed with herself, “Sorry, I went out drinking last night and only saw the message this

fine, I’m not

be the judge of

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

hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity

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

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

I do then?! Just let you

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

be in

the promise I’d

did she calm down a bit, looking at me skeptically,

then asked, “Did you hear what I

afraid of dragging her

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

way.”

for

we’d just have

almost ready to

go of

more troubled than when she had seen my injuries in the

tried to hide