Burn Me Once Burn With Me (Ruby Grayson) novel Chapter 379

He regretted it—regretted it so bitterly he could hardly breathe.

How did Mr. Veyne know?

But… hadn’t Mr. Veyne always seemed completely indifferent to Ruby? Why would he suddenly show up now, all because of something that happened a year ago?

At first, Bennett had assumed Cassian was just venting his anger at the warden. But as the conversation unfolded, the fog began to clear, and Bennett started to sense there was more to this than met the eye.

Could it be… was the warden actually behind everything that made Mrs. Veyne’s time in prison so miserable?

That thought alone made Bennett instantly understand the murderous rage Cassian had just unleashed.

“Who was it?” Cassian’s voice was ice. Though some calm had returned to him, his eyes were still as cold and unnerving as a winter storm.

The warden, trembling, lay face-down on the floor, afraid even to lift his head.

“It was… it was…”

His brief hesitation was met with a swift, merciless kick from Cassian.

The warden crashed into the sofa with a sickening thud.

“I’ll talk! I’ll talk! I never saw the man—he gave me a hefty sum and told me to make things as hard as possible for Ruby. I did hesitate, since she was your wife… but the man said you and she were married in name only, and that now, since he’d stolen secrets from Veyne & Co., you’d only resent her more. He told me not to worry, that he was acting on your behalf…”

“So… wasn’t it you who wanted Ruby to be ‘taken care of’?” the warden’s voice quivered as violently as his body.

Cassian staggered back a step, nearly losing his balance. “It wasn’t me. I never—” His brow was deeply furrowed.

He hadn’t expected that the person who hurt her would do it under his name.

No wonder Ruby had been so desperate to leave him after getting out; no wonder she hated him so much.

A knife twisted in Cassian’s gut. But what stung even more was the guilt over his own apathy.

“Bennett. Go through everything that happened in this prison over the past year. Everyone involved, whether they participated or stood by and did nothing—they all pay back tenfold.”

His voice was glacial.

The entire prison seemed to freeze in an instant.

The warden collapsed, nothing more than a heap of frightened flesh on the cold floor.

They’d harmed Ruby, and now retribution was coming.

Cassian strode away, the last remnants of warmth leaving with him.

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