To the Love of My Life

Ms. Taylor dropped Steve off at his apartment building and drove away. It hadn’t been five minutes since he returned to his apartment when Edward Woods and Rusell Henris arrived one after another.

At the meeting, most of the analysis was conducted by Rusell, with Edward occasionally interjecting. Without the loquacious Howard Coleman and the occasionally playful Madeleine, the meeting felt somewhat quiet and boring.

Especially Steve Burton, who didn’t usually say much during meetings, didn’t say a word from the beginning until the end of today’s meeting.

Finally, the meeting came to an end, and Edward and Rusell got up, intending to leave. Unfortunately, before they could step out of the study, Steve suddenly called out, “Edward.”

Edward froze in his tracks and instinctively looked at Rusell for help. Rusell returned an apologetic look, completely disregarding the bond between the brothers as he left first. Edward glared at Rusell’s retreating figure for a moment, then slowly turned around and called out to Steve with a grin, “Bro, what’s up?”

Steve didn’t say anything but stared at Edward, his thoughts drifting slightly.

That woman, after such a huge incident at the Gregorys, her first thought wasn’t to find him, her fiancé, but to stand up on her own and take responsibility for everything while also clearing Pristine’s Enterprises’ name in a grand and generous manner.

No one knew the extent of the loss he felt in his heart when he saw her at the press conference.

What was even more tragic was that his fiancée actually told him she was returning the US$6,860,000.

It was truly laughable… She would rather resort to using him but not openly depend on him.

To her, all she wanted was the marriage, the status of a Mrs. Burton – not Steve Burton, the man.

She didn’t need him.

So, he constantly suppressed himself, not giving her what she needed.

Yet, despite all this, he realized that he had still lost to her in the end.

Edward felt increasingly uneasy under Steve’s gaze, and just when he was about to break, Steve suddenly shifted his eyes. He looked at the screensaver on his computer – a smiling photo of Ruby Gregory – and pressed his lips together, before asking in a slightly low voice, “What’s the current situation with the Gregorys?”

Edward quietly let out a breath of relief and said, “The public opinion is quite harsh, Gregory’s Enterprises’ stock has plummeted, and earlier this morning, Maxwell Gregory passed out after hearing the news.”

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Ruby stayed with Madeleine for a while before leaving with the US$4,120,000 check Madeleine had lent her.

She went to the bank first and transferred the money that her father had saved under her name to a card without a password. She also deposited Madeleine’s money into the same account.