To the Love of My Life

Chapter 180 - 180: 180: Crying herself into unconsciousness (26)

Lady Gregory was silent, just staring at Ruby. After a while, she spoke with a somewhat serious tone: “Or perhaps, Ruby, you actually don’t want to see

Steve.”

This time, Lady Gregory used an affirmative sentence, rather than a rhetorical question.

Ruby, holding her mango sago, slightly shuddered, then lowered her head to take a sip of the mango sago, steadying her slightly panicked heart. Keeping her composure, she lifted her head to look at Lady Gregory, her eyes curving into a gentle tone, “Mom, why would you think that?”

This time, the silence from Lady Gregory lasted much longer than the previous one.

Ruby swallowed saliva and with her usual smile still on her face, she said, “Mom, don’t overthink…”

“Ruby…,” Lady Gregory interrupted Ruby seriously, she stared at Ruby for a while before continuing, “You’ve been injured for so many days and Steve has not come to visit you, you tell me, am I really overthinking?”

Ruby’s expression hardened slightly. She struggled to curve her lips into a smile: “Steven Burton is busy. He may not have time.”

“In the past, even when you caught a cold from a breeze, Steve would fly back from overseas just to see you. Was Steve not busy then?”

The words from Lady Gregory rendered Ruby speechless. Her forced smile gradually dissipated.

Although she was well aware of Steven Burton’s resentment and neglect towards her, she had always tried to hide it to avoid worrying her parents.

Now, could she no longer hide it?

The room fell into a bit of silence. After a long while, Lady Gregory finally spoke, “Ruby, you don’t need to lie to me. I overheard your conversation with Madeleine the day before yesterday.”

In fact, Lady Gregory didn’t mean to eavesdrop on Ruby and Madeleine’s conversation. Due to the worry caused by Steven Burton’s absence during Ruby’s injury, she didn’t interrupt the conversation between Ruby and

Madeleine when Madeleine asked Ruby if she had reconciled with Steven.

Madeleine and Ruby had been close friends since childhood. Ruby’s true feelings, which she would open up to Madeleine about, were not shown to her parents.

Deep down, she wanted to know what the situation was between Ruby and Steven Burton.

It was only when she heard Madeleine’s question, “Are you mad at my brother?” that she realized, just as she had suspected, that Ruby was truly at odds with Steven, and it was not Steve who was angry at her, but her who was angry with Steve..