Chapter 21

MARK

Wasn't life supposed to be simpler than this?

I'd always thought that staying in my lane, making money and financially satisfying the women who sexually indulged me was a way to live a simple life and avoid a lot of hurdles that made life very difficult.

But wasn't this thing 'difficult'?

Why did my heart ache when her countenance dropped at the sight of me with another lady? Why did I feel like the smiles were fake and pretended?

Was it love? Was I falling in love?

NO.

It wasn't love. My definition of those four alphabets changed a long time ago—after June's era in my life.

Well, June's era never passed. It never did...

To me, love was no longer fairytales and flowers. It was simply LOYALTY.

And nothing more.

I loved my men and my workers, especially Kenzo. I could take a bullet for them any day, and I knew they'd do the same because they had.

Kenzo had taken two bullets for me. One in his shoulder and the other in his abdomen.

That was love. And that was the definition stuck