Page 30 of The Rancher's Wedding Betrayal
Losing every fucking thing?
"P-Please, Hunter." She somehow found the courage to kill her pride before it killed the rest of her. "This isn't what it looks like."
But the man she loved—
The man she was throwing away her pride for—
The man who promised never to hurt her again like this—
I don't understand, God.
Why was Hunter looking at her like he had looked at her eight years ago?
"I heard a scream—" Janelle skidded to a stop as she entered the room and saw the tableau before her. "W-What's happening?"
Hunter's jaw clenched as his own cousin became a witness to Evelline's decision to cuckold him with a younger man, and at his own home at that.
"Please, Hun—"
"Stop saying my fucking name," he snapped.
Janelle's gaze darted between the two of them. "I don't understand—"
Hunter cut his cousin off. "Do me a favor, will you?"
"O-Of course."
Eve couldn't believe what was happening. Was he really...was he really not going to hear her out, just like before? And how...how could he be so much more cruel now, with Hunter not even caring to look her way?
"Escort her out of the house and have Luther drive her back to the city."
Eve's world threatened to collapse as Hunter turned to leave, and before she even realized what she was doing—
Please, God, please.
She was already stumbling forward, barely managing to grab the back of his shirt. "H-Hunter—"
He spun around so fast she nearly lost her balance, and a soundless cry slipped past her lips at the contempt blazing from his silvery gaze.
“Don’t fucking touch me again.”
Oh God, why.
"I should have known someone like you—”
Her hand struck his cheek before she could stop herself, and the crack of the slap echoed in the sudden silence of the room.
God, oh God.
She was the one who had slapped him, and yet why did it feel like she had just hurt herself even more by doing so?
“Why won’t you let me explain?” Her voice cracked. “You promised, Hunter. Y-You—"
"Just fucking leave, will you? Because if you're still here in the next hour, I’ll have you arrested.”
And as if all those hurtful words weren't enough—
Eve crumbled to her knees as Hunter yanked the silver ring from his finger and hurled it across the room.
