To the Love of My Life

Chapter 202: 202 Warm Encounter (16)

Ruby Gregory looked down at it. It was an ointment for stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. Her expression changed slightly, and then she remembered. This was from the night when she was injured, when Steve Burton was at the hospital and she angrily shattered a glass cup. When her mom arrived, she held a piece of bloody glass shard for her to see.

She was awake throughout that night, with the bloody shard filling her thoughts. The next day when she was on her way home, she impulsively stepped into a pharmacy and purchased this ointment.

It was after making the purchase that she realised it was unnecessary. She didn’t want to confront Steve Burton, let alone think about how to give him the ointment. Thus, she threw the medicine in her bag and kept it there until this very moment.

If Steve Burton hadn’t mentioned it just now, she might have completely forgotten about it.

Steve Burton saw Ruby Gregory looking down and staring at the ointment in her palm, unable to utter a word for a long time.

He knew her nature. This lively and animated woman would oddly turn stifled and muffled in his presence, taking forever to squeeze out a single phrase.

Just as Ruby Gregory was so eager to get away from him earlier, Steve Burton blurted out in slight anger, “Ruby Gregory, do you have a hearing problem or have you turned mute?”

It had been a long time since Steve Burton had lost his temper at Ruby Gregory. Upon hearing Steve Burton’s suddenly icy tone, Ruby Gregory instinctively thought he was angry. Without thinking, she blurted out, “No, this ointment, I got it a while back, when you were injured, I bought it for..” It was only then that she realised what she had said to Steve Burton.

She had bought the ointment but never gave it to him. What if he didn’t believe her when she said it was for him now?

Whether it was embarrassment or awkwardness she was feeling, her face turned red, and she lowered her gaze, no longer able to say a word.

“Injured?” Steve Burton furrowed his brows, his tone still devoid of any warmth and instead expressed impatience, “When did I get injured?”

Ruby Gregory shrank back slightly from Steve Burton’s tone, her head lowered, she explained in a timid voice, “At the company banquet a while back.”

Only then did Steve Burton suddenly come back to his senses, realising which day Ruby Gregory was referring to.

That day, he crushed the glass in his hand out of anger because she had tried to drive him away, cutting his own hand in the process.

The injury wasn’t that serious. It was just slightly painful for a couple of days, but afterwards it recovered back to its normal state. He had forgotten about it since he hadn’t given it much thought.

Steve Burton asked subconsciously, “If you bought it for me, why didn’t you give it to me all this while?”