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.”

was more compliant than usual. “Yeah, I’ll use it when I

“Hold off for now.”

off his white down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You should wait until

I nodded, making a mental

arrived. She carried it into the

was the best choice

nor

with a side glance, observed me closely, his gaze tightening slightly. “Have you been

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

else’s kindness for another’s had led me to fall

mistaken, I might not have fallen for Bryant

after a storm, a bright distant moon, but I had never dared to see

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

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 now with

and gentle face, holding back yet unable to stop myself from asking, “You’ve always known I

lightly, “What do