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

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

I’m not in bad

the

toe, her eyes reddening with anger, “And you call this ‘not in bad shape‘? What would you consider serious, then?

not leaving RiverCity anytime soon. Our journey in setting up our company is going

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 a

should I do then?! Just let

always ready to throw down, “I’ll go

won’t be in

the promise I’d wrung

then did she calm down a bit, looking at me

then asked, “Did you hear

was afraid of dragging

up on Janedream because of Dorothy, a piece of

way.”

pondered for

we’d just have

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

Christine let go of her

more troubled than when she had

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