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.”

and gratitude, I was more compliant than usual. “Yeah, I’ll

“Hold off for now.”

with a light laugh, “You should wait until

I nodded, making

carried it into the

the best choice in

nor

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

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

whole years, mistaking someone else’s kindness for another’s had led me to fall for the wrong person. It was worth shedding a

might not have fallen

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

a fleeting

the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already on the path to divorce, and now with his

yet unable to stop myself from asking,

furrowed his brows lightly,