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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the elevator, the blast of cold

“Ding–dong-”

Gregory’s door, I rang the

the door opened, revealing Gregory in a wheelchair, dressed

voice faint. “Mrs. Ferguson, visiting a man late at night might be

taken aback. “Didn’t you

joke, his smile cold and sarcastic. “Do you think it’s two years ago when I’d come running whenever you

be some glitch

hesitation, I said, “If

“Don’t worry.”

detached tone. “Even if I’m dying of pain,

should just rub it yourself. I’ll be leaving

turned colder, and he made a

close the door.

drenched, he reluctantly said, “Come in and change, or else Mr. Ferguson might come after

“It’s okay…”

you,

said nothing, stepping in as he moved

slippers are on

said curtly, then wheeled himself to the

shoe cabinet, exactly where I left them two years ago after a

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only had that

distance, his face stoic. “You can find clothes

has clean towels,” he

it,” I replied, remembering the layout from

grabbed a dark green maxi dress from Edith’s

wet clothes, I found him working in his

at the doorway, I hesitated before speaking. “Please tell Edith I’ll

look up, just uttered a

be leaving then.

“Hmm.”