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

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

fine, I’m not in

the judge

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 would you consider serious,

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

didn’t even hear the rest of

up and then what? Either of us end

I do then?! Just let you suffer

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

won’t be

shared with her the promise I’d wrung

calm down a bit,

then asked, “Did you hear

of dragging

up on Janedream because of

way.”

pondered for

come our way, we’d just have to

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

let go of her plan

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

to hide her