When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 280

Mark reached out, gently ruffling my hair as he spoke in a calm, measured tone.

“The girl I wanted to ask to that concert… was you. The one I’ve been waiting to divorce… also you. And the one I’ve loved for twenty- years… yes, you.”

His voice carried a quiet confidence, his amber eyes shining with unwavering certainty, “Jane, it’s always been you, nobody else.”

It felt like my heart was being pulled out of my chest. Suddenly, I was flustered, at a loss for words.

Tumed out, when faced with someone who genuinely cared for and loved me, my first instinct was to feel unworthy.

Mixed emotions swirled within me, and I instinctively wanted to deny it, “How could it be me? You’ve known her for so many years, and we’ve only…”

“Do you remember me telling you about moving back with the Larsons when I was eight?” Mark patiently explained, lifting his wrist to show me a bracelet, “Before I was taken back by the Larsons, I was in Southhaven. This bracelet, does it ring a bell?”

“No…” I shook my head in confusion.

were fragmented, consisting only of bits and pieces about my parents and being

aunt, having to put up with Allen’s mood swings just to feed me,

the doctor said it was

long; the chances of recovering those

was a birthday

storm inside me, didn’t seem down at all. He spoke gently, “It’s okay. We have a long future ahead of us. It’s enough that I remember the

asking, “When did you recognize

that time you fainted from low

looked at me with a tender

just a coincidence. But then, I noticed so many of your habits were the same as

I blinked, “Like what?”

for spicy and sweet foods, the way you fidget with your hands when you’re nervous,

me, “So,

certainty grew, and I had to admit, “Yes! It adds

was

But still…

with my hands, saying, “Mark, I

to