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Ruby sighs. “It’s not you, Gabriel. It’s who you play hockey with.”
“Oh,” I say. “Right.”
“You know what? Never mind,” Mila says. “I shouldn’t have come here. I shouldn’t have said anything.”
“He’s really got you flustered, huh?” Ruby asks. “I wonder why that is…”
“You really have no sense of sympathy ever, do you?” Mila asks.
“Not when it comes to certain things, Mila. And believe it or not, as much as you think I’m a bitch, I just want you to be happy.”
“You’ve never given Ward a chance,” Mila says.
“I didn’t have to. I looked at him and read him like a book.”
“You’re awful, Ruby.”
“Oh no, you hurt my feelings,” Ruby says.
“Whoa, hey, okay,” I say. I step between them. “Let’s all take a breather here. There’s a lot of emotion showing.”
“Are you taking her side?” Ruby asks me.
“Hell no,” I say. “You’re not playing this game right now with me.”
Ruby steps back and rolls her eyes.
Oh, she can turn the bitch meter up to ten thousand when she wants.
I face Mila. “Hey. Here’s what I’m going to tell you. Jax? Jax is Jax. That’s it. What you see is what you get. And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing.”
Mila nods.
She looks like she has more to say but she turns and walks off.
I clench my jaw tight.
The thing with Ruby though, is that under all that meanness she does care about Mila. And I’m pretty sure we all collectively agree that Ward is as useful as a bag of trash.
But it’s not our hearts involved in this.
It’s Mila’s heart…
… and maybe Jax’s?
24
MAC
This is the last you’re going to hear from me.
It’s been a hell of a ride, hasn’t it?
I’ll miss you.
And I mean that.
You’ve been here for a lot of my story.
