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.”

of guilt and gratitude, I was more compliant than usual. “Yeah,

“Hold off for now.”

down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You should wait until the wounds start to heal before

I nodded, making a

the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s on me tonight. You guys just sit

was the best

Mark nor

the kitchen came the soft clinking of utensils. Mark, with a side

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

mistaking someone else’s kindness for another’s had led me to fall for the wrong person. It was

might not have fallen for Bryant so

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

I’d cherished a fleeting crush, moving

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 his

his kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable

lightly, “What do