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“You’re punishing me,” he huffed.

“I’m treating you. You’re the one who set the ambitious goal on the tight time frame.”

“It’s not the exercises, darlin’, it’s the attitude. You want me to hurt.”

She took the bull by the horns. “I do not want to hurt you.”

He stopped again. “You should. I hurt you.”

It took Ruby a moment to decide how to respond.

“Yes, you did.” In for a penny, in for a pound. “You hurt me deeply, Luke Buckton.”

Luke stopped walking, holding her gaze for a moment. His blue eyes looked like their depths went on forever. “I know that.”

“Did you know it when you left? Did you think about it at all?”

“I wouldn’t let myself think about it at first. I let all the dreams and the money dangling in front of my face crowd it out.”

“You said such…hurtful things.”

She heard him sigh. “I needed to burn the bridges behind me. I figured we’d both be better off if you hated me.”

“It doesn’t work that way, Luke.”