Chapter 84
Ruby stood like she had been punched in the gut. There was no way that could be true. It couldn’t be true. It just couldn’t be true. She repeated those words to herself over and over again.
“Jaxon tell me it’s not true.” She pleaded in a low voice. She couldn’t believe it. She would not accept that her parents had killed themselves.
“Ruby…”
“Tell me it’s not true,” she yelled through the tears that had started to fall.
“Gem i-”
“Say it’s not true,” she begged, “please.”
“Ruby, everything I told you is the truth, I promise you.” Jaxon told her but she wouldn’t accept it. How could she?
Her hands curled into tight fists and she gritted her teeth. Anger she had not known was there surfaced and made her see red.
“It’s not true Jaxon. It just can’t be.” She stated as she looked him in the eyes. She had loved her parents so much and they had loved her too. They wouldn’t think to kill themselves.
She had been there and saw with her eyes how they died now he was suddenly telling her that they had never been in an accident. That they had taken their lives intentionally? It just wasn’t possible.
She had been there and seen it. He hadn’t. She had seen the car go up in flames and burn until nothing was left of them.
She couldn’t believe there was any foul play involved. The brakes had failed, simple as that. They hadn’t come up with some plan to kill themselves.
“I don’t know where you got your information from, but it just wasn’t possible.” She stated. Ruby was in misbelief and she didn’t want to get out of it.
“Ruby, listen to me. I know you’re still finding it hard to believe but it is true.” Jaxon said so calmly that it was tempting to believe him.
“I’m not finding it hard to believe because it’s simply not true.” She countered angrily.
“Ruby, I have evidence and records of what actually happened…. I can show them to you if you like,” he hesitated. It was best if she accepted the truth. She would heal. He just couldn’t kept lying.
With each statement Jaxon made, it broke Ruby’s heart more and more. His words made her feel devastated because she would have to come to terms with her parents’ actual cause of death.
She tried to fight it so badly, she didn’t want to believe it. Her parents had died and left a ton of problems that she had gotten tangled up with simply because she was their daughter.
“Do you know what this means Jaxon?” She asked him. Jaxon shook his head in response.
“It means my life these past few years has been a lie. Now I don’t know if I ever truly knew my parents.” She told him, and now she would never know. Because they had taken so much information with them to the grave.
Jaxon took a small step toward her and she backed off.
“Just stay away from me.” She said to him, She didn’t want him near her. She didn’t want anyone near her for that matter.
“Gem don’t do this.” Jaxon let out. Ruby thought he looked like he would beg her but she decided against it. He was Jaxon, he didn’t do begging.
“And I don’t want to do this either.”
“Don’t you know this is really hard for me to get used to?” She didn’t know what she should do. Cry, get angry at being lied to? She just couldn’t get over it.
The…. Accident she had seen had traumatized her and it still left emotional scars she carried till this day. It was because of that very accident that the thought of fire scared her out of her wits.
Just looking at an open fire of any sort, be it from a stove or a bonfire, she would be transported to that very moment where the car blew up in flames.
“I know it’s hard for you Ruby, that’s why I’m trying to help you but you won’t let me.” His voice had found a way to weasel past her overactive imagination. She stared at him briefly before shaking her head.
She just wanted to be left alone to… To do what? Grieve? Curse them? She wasn’t sure.
“No.” She told him. He took a step forward and she took a corresponding one back. He took another step and so did she.
“For God’s sake Ruby, just calm down.” He breathed out with a sigh.
On any normal day, his words wouldn’t have meant much to her but today wasn’t one of those days. Her nostrils flared as she heard him say.
“calm down?” He made it sound so easy. But it wasn’t. He wasn’t the one who had believed something that wasn’t true for all these years, she was. So what right did he have to tell her to calm down.
“Don’t you get it Jaxon? I can’t just calm down.” She bit out. His eyes suddenly flashed but she didn’t care to read them.
“Ruby i-”
“Don’t.”
He tried once more to approach her but this time, she was not having it. She sprinted out of the car pack.
His heavy footsteps were not so far behind her so she hurried up.
She was so caught up trying to get away from him that she didn’t notice a black car pull up in front of her. She stopped just in time but before she could even think of running away somewhere or waiting, the door of the car burst open and two extremely huge guys grabbed her.
She tried to fight them off as best she could but it was of no use. They were far stronger than her and easily maneuvered her in and shut the door. Just before the car pulled away, she caught a glance of Jaxon on the curb. The car sped off after that.
“Fuck!” Jaxon yelled as he watched the black car speed away. He should have done something. He shouldn’t have let her go.
His phone pinged in his pocket and he pressed answer.
“So, did you like our surprise?” Mikhail said through the phone and Jaxon knew this was their doing.
“I’m not saying much, I’m just letting you know that Nikolai wants to meet your Ruby.”