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

herself, “Sorry,

not in bad

me be the judge

the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call

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

her!” Christine didn’t even hear the

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

should I do then?! Just let you suffer

to throw down, “I’ll go

be in

with her the promise I’d wrung out

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

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

afraid of dragging her

of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If not, then I’m with you all

way.”

for

way, we’d just

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

go of her

my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when she had seen my injuries

to hide her tablet, “Oh, you’re