When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 412

Christine leaned in with curiosity sparkling in her eyes. “What’s up? Who texted you?”

I turned off my phone screen. “Gregory.”

“Gregory? What does he want now? Wasn’t he snarky enough at the diner last night? Thinks he didn’t get his point across?”

“It’s not that.”

I hesitated before speaking, a bit embarrassed. “He’s got leg pain, probably a leftover issue from that accident last year. I should go check on him.”

Christine glared at me, visibly annoyed. “Just when you promised you wouldn’t choose a guy over your friends, and here you are, proving me wrong.”

I tried to smooth things over by offering a shoulder rub. “Come on, Chris. How could you even say that? I’m just going to check up on him. What do you feel like for late–night snacks? I’ll bring you something on my way back.”

“It’s not about that. Doesn’t he have a girlfriend? What’s your role in this?”

“He doesn’t have a girlfriend.”

I touched my ear. “That’s his cousin.”

“Alright, fine. Go then.”

Christine seemed to let go of her frustration, pushing me out the door with a resigned sigh.

On my way to River Villa, just as I was about to enter the parking lot, the security guard stopped me,

Apparently, there was a new rule that no outside vehicles were allowed in.

I tried calling Gregory, but got no answer.

Left with no choice, I parked my car on the street and borrowed an umbrella from the guard, walking into the complex.

Despite it being summer, the pouring rain had soaked through my high heels, and the hem of my dress clung to my legs.

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of cold air made me

“Ding–dong-”

at Gregory’s door, I rang the

revealing Gregory in a wheelchair,

Ferguson, visiting a man late at night might be hard to explain,

aback. “Didn’t you

if I’d told a joke, his smile cold and sarcastic. “Do you think it’s

down. “Then, must be some

said, “If your leg is

“Don’t worry.”

me off with a cold, detached tone. “Even if I’m dying of pain, I wouldn’t need someone else’s

I mean, you should just rub it yourself. I’ll be leaving

I turned to leave, his expression turned colder, and he

close the door.

change, or else Mr. Ferguson might come after me if

“It’s okay…”

you, huh? Can’t understand plain talk?” His voice

my hands but said nothing, stepping in as he

on

wheeled himself to

slippers in the shoe cabinet, exactly where I

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shelf only had that one

distance, his face stoic. “You can find clothes in Edith’s room. Pick anything;

bathroom has clean towels,”

remembering the layout from my

just grabbed a dark green maxi

my wet clothes, I found him working

before speaking. “Please tell Edith I’ll wash and return

look up, just

leaving then.

“Hmm.”