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

“Sorry, I went out drinking last night and only saw

fine, I’m not

me be the judge of

to toe, her eyes reddening with anger,

leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey in setting up

going to face her!” Christine didn’t even hear the rest of my words,

will that do? Beat her up and then what? Either of

do then?! Just

ready to throw down, “I’ll go down

won’t be in

with her the promise

a bit, looking at me skeptically,

asked, “Did you

afraid of dragging her

up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of trash? If not, then I’m with

way.”

for

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

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

go of her plan

even more

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