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 change

“Hold off for now.”

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

making a mental

as Christine was about to close the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s

the best

Mark nor I

a side glance, observed me closely,

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

another’s had led me to fall for the wrong person. It was worth shedding

been mistaken, I might not have fallen for

like the calm after a storm, a bright distant moon, but I had never dared to see him as my beacon, to carelessly fall

like others, I’d cherished a fleeting crush,

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

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

his brows lightly, “What do