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.”

jacket, explaining with a light

nodded, making a mental

She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s on me tonight. You guys just sit back

the best choice in this

Mark nor I

with a side glance, observed me closely, his gaze

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

mistaking someone else’s kindness for another’s had led me to fall for the wrong

mistaken, I might not have fallen for

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

others, I’d cherished a fleeting crush,

heart require some blessing from fate. You were already on the path to divorce, and now with his announcement of an engagement, you can start

I suddenly cut him off, staring at his kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable to stop myself

furrowed his brows lightly, “What