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.”
Feeling a mix of guilt and gratitude, I was more compliant than usual. “Yeah, I’ll use it when I change my dressings tonight.”
“Hold off for now.”
The house was warm, heated throughout, as Mark took off his white down jacket, explaining with a light laugh, “You should wait until the wounds start to heal before using the scar treatment.”
“Okay.” I nodded, making a mental note.
Just as Christine was about to close the door, our takeout arrived. She carried it into the kitchen. “Dinner’s on me tonight. You guys just sit back and relax.”
Stew was the best choice in this weather.
Neither Mark nor I objected.
From the kitchen came the soft clinking of utensils. Mark, with a side glance, observed me closely, his gaze tightening slightly. “Have you been crying?”
“…Yeah.”
Had I not been mistaken, I might not have fallen for Bryant so deeply.
He was like the calm after a storm, a bright distant moon, but I had never dared to see him as my beacon, to carelessly fall for him.
At most, like others, I’d cherished a fleeting crush, moving on after graduation.
Mark appeared somewhat helpless. Misunderstanding the cause for my sadness, he tried to comfort me, “Matters of the heart require some blessing from fate. You were already on the path to divorce, and now with his announcement of an engagement, you can start to let go…”
“Mark,” I suddenly cut him off, staring at his kind and gentle face, holding back yet unable to stop myself from asking, “You’ve always known I got it wrong, haven’t you?”
I looked at him earnestly, speaking softly, “Why… why didn’t you ever tell me?”
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