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

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

not in bad

the

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

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

hear the rest of my words, ready to

do? Beat her up and then what? Either of us end up in a worse

Just

“I’ll go down with her, how about

won’t be in

her the promise I’d wrung out of

she calm down a bit,

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

was afraid of

of Dorothy, a

way.”

for a moment,

our way, we’d just have to

marketing experience, 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

Christine looked even more troubled than when she had seen my injuries

to hide her tablet, “Oh, you’re