To the Love of My Life

Even if there’s only a slim chance, she wouldn’t give up!

As the call connected, a long beeping sound came through, and Ruby Gregory’s heart grew more and more tense with this sound.

The phone rang five times, just when Ruby thought no one would answer, the call was picked up.

At the other end of the call, it wasn’t Steve Burton’s voice, but the sound of footsteps.

After a while, the footsteps stopped, and only then Steve’s usual cold tone came through: “Hello?”

Ruby listened to his voice, her heart almost stopped. Her palm, gripping the phone, was sweaty. She took a deep breath and said, “Mr. Burton, this is Ruby Gregory.”

“Hmm.” His response was genuinely restrained, just a cold and indifferent tone.

Ruby knew that Steve had no intention of making any conversation, she swallowed and tried to sound calm: “I have brought the collaboration case for the meeting you will be holding today. Can you have Olivia Foster come over and pick it up?”

Not only Olivia could play mind games, so could Ruby.

As Steve asked her to come and pick it up, she wouldn’t dare to have any other thoughts.

“Bring it up yourself!” Steve said directly to Ruby without any hesitation or negotiation. What did she mean? The collaboration case was delivered, but she didn’t come up? Was it because of what happened over the weekend that she didn’t want to see him?

Though they were separated by a phone call, Ruby could vaguely sense the intimidating aura emanating from Steve. Her nervous heart almost stopped beating, fearing that in the next second, he would tell her to get out of Pristine’s Enterprises. So she carefully spoke in a negotiating tone: “Could you maybe start the meeting a bit later? I’ve sprained my ankle and it might slow me down a bit…”

At the other end of the call, there was no sound.

Ruby couldn’t guess what Steve was thinking, making her even more uneasy.

Just when Ruby thought Steve had agreed, and she was about to hang up the phone and bear the pain of her injured ankle to deliver the case before seeing a doctor, Steve suddenly spoke, asking: “Where are you?”

Ruby thought he had agreed to let Olivia come and get the documents, and she immediately replied: “About 300 meters east of the club…” Ruby’s last word hadn’t even settled when the phone clicked off.

Her words were cut off, stuck in her throat.

Ruby sat patiently by the road, waiting for Olivia to come and collect the collaboration case.

However, after waiting for about ten minutes, Ruby couldn’t see Olivia’s figure. Just as she hesitated whether to make another call to inquire, suddenly, a flashy yellow Ferrari stopped in front of her..