“You can hate me now, Belle. Hell, I care! There, are you happy now?” Rubick growled at her. “Why did you have to do this to me? I've been trying hard to change. I've been trying to fix my doomed life, Lahynna Belle. But doing this to me made me remember that I can’t fix my life anymore. I'll never be the better version of myself. I am always the fucking beast everyone knows!”

He was a broken man. She could see the bitterness from Rubick’s eyes. His wrath. She doesn’t know whom that fury is for. Is it because she provokes him? Now, she’s regretting it.

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