When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 279

Barefoot, Christine dashed to the door, freezing momentarily upon opening it. “Mark, you… came to see Jane?”

“Yeah.” With a gentle smile, Mark stepped inside, glancing my way as he slipped off his shoes. “How are you feeling today? Still in pain?”

Seeing him again, even just after a night, made me feel strangely unworthy.

It was Mark who helped me out!

Noticing my daze, Mark chuckled, “Daydreaming?”

“No, not really.” I hastily shook my head, pulling myself back to the present to answer his earlier question. “Much better, not as painful as yesterday.”

“That’s good to hear.”

He placed a bag on the coffee table, “I swung by the pharmacy to pick up some scar treatment for you. Those injuries of yours are no joke, and even though they’re not on your face, we can’t be careless about them. We don’t want any scars.”

compliant than usual. “Yeah,

“Hold off for now.”

a light laugh, “You should wait until the wounds start to heal before using the scar

making a mental

the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the

best choice

nor I

utensils. Mark, with a side glance, observed me closely,

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

me to fall for the wrong person. It was worth shedding a

I might not have fallen for Bryant so

moon, but I

most, like others, I’d cherished a fleeting crush, moving

Misunderstanding the cause for my sadness, he tried to comfort me, “Matters of the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already on the path to divorce, and

suddenly cut him off, staring at his kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable to stop myself from asking, “You’ve always known I got it wrong,

lightly, “What