When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 348

He extended the box towards me, speaking softly, “Take a look.”

-Arnica Cream

When I finally made out the bold letters on the box, I wished the ground would swallow me whole. Hastily getting up, I said, “Just leave the medication with me. I’ll take a shower and apply it myself.”

If it hadn’t been for him, I would have forgotten about my fall.

“Sure.”

A playful smile touched his lips, his tone teasing, “I’ve already asked the concierge to send up Christine, in case you need help reaching those tricky spots.”

From the get–go, he had considered the privacy of my injury.

It was just my imagination.

The longer I thought about it, the more embarrassed I felt, until I just got mad. I pushed him out of the room and tried to slam the door shut.

But he stopped the door with one hand and, much like the night before, suddenly pinched my face, his voice seductive, “Jane, Merry Christmas.”

As he spoke, the sound of fireworks burst outside.

The brilliant fireworks lit up the entire room through the floor–to–ceiling windows, making him seem all the more unrestrained.

this time,” he

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often made empty promises, but he followed through quickly when it came to his

was out, the Ferguson Group

outdone, the Ford family launched an electronic device featuring technology that the Ferguson Group was planning to unveil

making a wedding dress

to schedule a meeting with some clients from Vista Town after the

stay

day, Christine was browsing the news online, puzzled, “Do you think

know.”

contact with Gregory. We hadn’t even called each other;

he

left me with no confidence in matters of the

no longer believed that a man would

was just the

her phone, she suddenly sat up straight,

I

the Myers family

her phone, a bit concerned for

“That’s good.”

peace. Her longing to find Lilliana was palpable, even to an outsider

about you and Gregory? Do you really believe he’ll call off his