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

dumped a bunch of groceries on the dining table, annoyed with herself, “Sorry, I went out drinking

not in

me be the

over, lifting my shirt to inspect the damage from head to toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you

“Chris, she’s not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey

to face her!” Christine didn’t even hear the

Beat her up and

should I do then?! Just let you suffer

to throw down, “I’ll go down with

won’t be in

her the promise I’d wrung out of

calm down a

I assured her, then asked, “Did you hear

was afraid of dragging her into

the concern, “Would you give up on Janedream because of

way.”

for

come our way, we’d

were almost ready to get the company off the

let go of

Christine looked even more

she clumsily tried to hide her tablet,