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 last

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

fine, I’m not

me be the

my shirt to inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger,

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

Christine didn’t even hear the rest of my

her up and

I do then?! Just

always ready to throw down, “I’ll

be

with her the promise I’d

then did she calm down a bit, looking at me

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

of

the concern, “Would you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If not, then I’m with

way.”

pondered for a moment,

way, we’d just have to

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

let go of her

I woke up from my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when she had seen my injuries in the

tried to