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CHAPTER 11

DAX’S POV

“I don’t like you, Dax. I don’t like people that hurt me”

Ruby’s slurred words when she was half-conscious kept on playing in my head like a broken record and it broke me just as many times as I remembered her saying them to me before she passed out.

They said a person’s true colors showed when they were either drunk, sedated, angry, or desperate, and well, Ruby was angry at me.

Coupled with her being half-conscious, I could tell that she meant what she said.

First, it was the tears she shed on the sidewalk after she walked out of the cafe and that broke me to know I caused her pain.

Now, she said I hurt her and she didn’t like me and she wasn’t wrong. I did that to her and I didn’t know if I was ever going to do enough to make up for my foolish mistake of hurting her.

Who the hell broke up with their fiancee over the phone on the day of their pre-wedding photoshoot and then called them a fake but still secretly loved them?

I was the only idiot who could do such