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Chapter 115: All Men Were The Same

Chapter 115: All Men Were The Same

"I let you talk, Stefan," she said, her voice rising slightly. "I let you talk and accuse and humiliate me in front of your mother and everyone else. I stood there while you looked at me like I was the worst kind of liar. Like I was some stranger even when I know you felt the familiarity between us. You believed every

She shook her head. "No, Stefan. You didn’t make a mistake. You made a choice. You chose not to listen. It was your choice! Your choice, Stefan so live with it."

Ruby turned and started walking toward the car parked nearby. Rayna moved with her, but Stefan reached out, trying to stop her.

"Ruby, wait—"

Before his hand could touch Ruby’s, Rayna stepped in between them, her brown eyes fierce.

"Don’t you dare," Rayna said sharply, holding up a hand. "Don’t touch her."

Stefan froze. He could understand their pain, the reason they were being this way. But the truth was he was also a victim. Just like Ruby. He was a victim. He thought, looking at Rayna who was looking at him.

"She told you to leave. Do you have any idea what she’s been through this past week? Do you know what it’s like to cry yourself to sleep every night because the one person you trusted most treated you like dirt?"

"Rayna—" Ruby whispered, her throat tightening.

"No, Ruby," Rayna said firmly, glaring at Stefan. "He doesn’t get to show up here and pretend to care now. He had his chance, and he threw it away."

Stefan’s jaw tensed. He looked like he wanted to argue, but Rayna wasn’t finished.

"You need to leave. Right now. Before I call the police and get a restraining order."

Ruby’s stomach twisted. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. It wasn’t supposed to hurt this much to see him. She thought she’d started to move on, that she didn’t care about him again. But clearly, she was mistaken. How would she carry on now that he has shown up to disrupt her life again?

After a moment’s thought, Rayna asked, "How did you even find us? How the hell did you know she was here?"

Ruby turned her head slightly, her brows drawing together.

Yes... how did he know where I was? He definitely couldn’t have figured it out. Sure, he might have figured out she was in Florittle but here? This place? How the hell did he find her? She hadn’t mentioned it once so how?

Rayna who was also thinking of what Ruby was thinking about gazed to the road. And that’s when she saw it.

A familiar silver car was parked a few feet away. And inside, behind the wheel, sat Ethan. f.re(e) w.e(b)nov el.c.om

Her breath caught. Ethan? How was he there and not making an attempt to get down? Was he with Stefan? She thought, squinting her eyes to make out his face properly.

He looked away the moment her eyes met his, as if ashamed. .com

Just like that, everything clicked. The Ethan—Stefan’s Ethan, the Ethan that had helped her and was Stefan’s best friend was her own Ethan. He was in Zeden the same time as her. She’d left that day because of the lawsuit but he’d in Zeden to meet his best friend.

He’d insisted on bringing her to her house, claiming he cared but in reality, he’d just wanted to know where she lived so he could tell Stefan.

When did they even figure it out? At the date or before the date? Was that why he’d even asked her to go on that date? What the hell was all this and just why did it have to be now that she liked him and wanted something to do with him?

While Rayna was still thinking that, Ruby’s eyes filled with tears—not just from betrayal, but exhaustion. She was so tired of being hurt by the people she trusted.

She turned back to Stefan, her voice barely above a whisper. "You asked Ethan."

Even she had followed Rayna’s eyes to see Ethan in the car. She’d seen the hurt on Rayna’s face and had connected the dots immediately.

Stefan didn’t deny it.

"You used him to find me," she continued, voice trembling. "Even at the expense of Rayna’s heart....."

"We didn’t know until yesterday. And after I found out, I didn’t know what else to do," Stefan cut in weakly. "I was desperate."

"You don’t get to be desperate now," she whispered. "You weren’t desperate when I was begging you to believe me. You were silent then. You were cruel."

"I’m sorry," he said, his voice cracking.

Ruby shook her head, blinking back the tears. "Sorry doesn’t fix everything."

Rayna opened the car door. "Ruby, let’s go."

Stefan took another step forward. "Please, Ruby. I love you."

Those words. They should have made her heart skip.

Instead, they felt like a knife twisting in her chest. Why couldn’t she feel the love or the softness of those words right now?

"If you loved me," she said softly, "you would have trusted me."

And with that, she slid into the passenger seat beside Rayna, leaving Stefan standing on the curb as the engine started.

Rayna gave him one last glare before driving off.

The wind outside rushed by as the car moved forward, but Ruby’s mind was trapped in the stillness of her own heartbreak. Her hands trembled in her lap. Her eyes stung.

Rayna reached over and gently squeezed her fingers. "You did the right thing," she said.

Ruby wanted to believe that.

But all she could feel was the weight of everything she’d lost.

And the man she’d once loved standing on the street, too late. Again.

"I’m sorry Ethan had to do that. I never would have thought your Ethan and his Ethan were the same people," Ruby said after some time but Rayna didn’t say anything.

The deed was already done. He had used her , just like Colin did. All men were the same and now she could see it. She’d been a fool to think Ethan was different or that he was meant to show her what true love actually meant.