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.”

compliant than

“Hold off for now.”

heated throughout, as Mark took off his white down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You should wait until the wounds start to heal

nodded, making a mental

the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s on

best choice in this

Mark nor

soft clinking of utensils. Mark, with a side glance, observed me closely, his gaze

“…Yeah.”

There was no denial.

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

not been mistaken, I might not have fallen for Bryant so

was like the calm after a storm, a bright distant moon, but I had never dared to see him as

like others, I’d cherished a fleeting

the cause for my sadness, he tried to comfort me, “Matters of the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already

at his kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable

his brows lightly, “What do you