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

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

not in

me be the

the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad

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

even hear the

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

I do then?! Just let you suffer

throw down, “I’ll go down

be in

promise I’d wrung out of

did she calm down a bit, looking at

“Did

afraid of dragging

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

way.”

pondered for a moment,

we’d just

to get the company off the

Christine let go of her plan

nap, Christine looked even more troubled than when

tried to