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 me

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

fine, I’m not

be the judge

toe, her eyes reddening with anger,

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

even hear

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

I do then?! Just let

down, “I’ll go down

won’t be in

promise

calm down a bit, looking at me

asked, “Did you hear what I said

afraid of dragging

you give up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If

way.”

for a moment,

else come our way, we’d just have to play

were almost ready to get

go of her plan for

from my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than

clumsily tried to