Chapter 179 He Did Not Call For Me

(Ruby)

I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. My ears were ringing, a telltale sign that I was panicking from the inside no matter how hard I tried not to show it outwardly.

I can’t believe that I was doing this.

Jack didn’t know. Hell, I didn’t even tell Lydia that I had decided to do this.

I thought about it and I kept thinking about it until nothing made sense except for the feeling that this was something that I should be doing.

Standing in front of the mansion though, I felt like chickening out and leaving but I knew that I shouldn’t.

I wanted to fight for Jack the way he was fighting for me in his own way. I knew being mad at him over something that wasn’t his idea was exactly what Margaret was trying to do.

She was thinking and probably hoping that her demands drive a wedge between us naturally. Instead of that happening, I should be sticking by Jack’s side because I loved him more than any words could tell you.

After visiting Margaret, I would go to Jack and make him underst