Page 185 of In Love with a Ruthless Man

Meredith Grayson’s words screamed into Fawn’s mind.

Do you get it now?

You’re a fucking brick around his neck he doesn’t want—-”

You know.

YOU KNOW.

Fawn screamed.

Grant whitened. “Fawn—-”

She turned to him, screaming, sobbing, “I know.”

And suddenly, it was all Fawn could say.

“I KNOW.”

“I know, I know, I know!”

And she did.

She finally did.

The prince didn’t love her.

Nurses burst into the room, the doctor following behind them, and Fawn couldn’t stop screaming.

“I knooooooooow. I know. I know. I know.”

NICK CHRISTAKOS WASthe first one to visit the prince, who had been sentenced to jail overnight after being held in contempt. Upon seeing his friend, he rose to his feet immediately, asking tautly, “Did you talk to her?”

“Yes.” Nick’s voice was strained.

The prince swallowed. “And?”

“She’s had to be sedated.”

Ah.The prince slowly held on to the bars of his cell, his fingers tightening until his knuckles turned white.

“That’s not all.” Nick took a deep breath. “I just learned from Fredericka...that aside from requesting you be in court when the video played...” Regret flashed in Nick’s blue eyes. “She had another condition. She had also asked to watch a recording of the proceedings. She had wanted...to see your reaction to the video, and I’m afraid—-”

The prince said harshly, “Just spit it out, Nick.”

“She saw your reaction to what happened, and she thinks...she thinks itdisgustedyou, the sight of her drinking her pee—-”

Dio.

Torment surged inside of him at the thought that Fawn would believe such a thing—-

Oh God.

That he had made her feel he thought so little of her—-

“I love her,” the prince said hollowly. “I love her, Nick. More than anyone, more than the parents I used to have, more than the parents I have now—-” His breathing turned ragged. “I love her.”

Nick didn’t know what to say, and he whispered bleakly, “I’m sorry, Reid.”

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