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 last

with herself, “Sorry, I went out drinking last night and only

fine, I’m not

the judge of

over, lifting my shirt to inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad shape‘? What

still sore, and ruffled her hair, “Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime

Christine didn’t even hear the

do? Beat her up and then what? Either

do then?! Just let

was always ready to throw down, “I’ll go

won’t be

her the promise I’d

calm down a bit, looking at

then asked, “Did

of dragging her

because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If not, then

way.”

for a

way, we’d just have to play it by

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

go of

woke up from my nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when she had

she clumsily tried to hide her tablet, “Oh, you’re