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

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

not in

me be the

marched 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, then? Who the hell

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

Christine didn’t even hear the rest of my words, ready to

stopped her, “What good will that do? Beat her up and then what? Either of us end up in

Just let you suffer

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

be in

promise I’d

then did she calm down a bit, looking at me skeptically,

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

was afraid of dragging

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

way.”

for a

anything else come our way, we’d just

my design skills. We were almost ready to get the company

go of

up from my nap, Christine looked even more troubled

tried to hide her