To the Love of My Life

Seeing Steve Burton’s silence, Ruby felt even more worried. After some hesitation, she quickly said, “Don’t overthink this. The reason I lied and brought you to the hospital is because I was worried your leg injury wasn’t healing. I don’t have any other intentions.”

Fearing that Steve wouldn’t believe her, she paused for a moment, then continued, “Gregory’s Enterprises has been bought out by Pristine’s Enterprises, so it already belongs to them. There’s no need for me to do anything for Gregory’s Enterprises anymore. Plus, if I wanted to use you, if I wanted to marry you again, I wouldn’t have thought of cancelling the marriage from the beginning.”

Steve’s heart was filled with joy, but when he heard Ruby’s last statement, a flood of indescribable feelings suddenly overwhelmed him.

He had always dreamed of the day Ruby would genuinely show her concern for him.

He finally lived to see this day, but it was only after he had lost her.

Had he been too harsh on her back then, out of anger and resentment? Was that why she hurriedly tried to clarify?

Steve stared at the road ahead, his lips pressed tightly together. After a long while, he finally broke the silence, saying to Ruby, “Thank you.”

Those with feelings tend to become more sensitive. Ruby had not used to be that thoughtful. Now, however, she found Steve’s expression not entirely happy. She gently bent her fingers and quietly said, “Actually, you don’t have to thank me. Rather, I should be the one thanking you.”

Ruby pursed her lips then continued, “On that day, thank you for pulling me back at the crucial moment, protecting me from being hit by the motorbike.”

Steve’s hand clung tightly on the steering wheel, recalling the suddenness of his arrival and departure on that day. He had thought she had not noticed that it was him who had saved her, but now he found out she knew?

“Your leg injury… it was caused by the motorbike, wasn’t it? When Madeleine told me, I felt very guilty,” she added.

Steve felt a pang of disappointment. It turned out that her concern for him stemmed from her feeling guilty because he was injured while saving her.

However, he quickly realized that his disappointment was unnecessary. The fact that Ruby genuinely showed her care for him was already enough to make him ecstatic. Did he also expect her to like him? Was he expecting her to have come to his aid out of heartache upon hearing of his injury?

People are strange creatures. In the past, when she was by his side, he wished for her heart to be filled with him. Now that they had been separated and had lost each other, he realized that he didn’t need her to love him. As long as she was willing to talk to him, he’d be on cloud nine.

“Also, Madeleine mentioned that you often go to the Gardenia Clubhouse, you dissolved Evan Yanna’s trap for me, right? Thank you… If it wasn’t for you, I might have been fired that day.”

Ruby paused, recalling that Steve had also called a taxi for her to send her home.