To the Love of My Life

Chapter 348: 348: Blessing in Disguise (38)

Steve Burton covered Ruby Gregory with the blanket again and said softly, “You go to sleep first.”

After a pause, Steve added, “I’ll sleep later.”

Ruby finally closed her eyes with peace of mind and fell asleep in no time.

Ruby’s bruises were severe, and the next day, she was even more swollen and painful than before. Combined with a fever, the doctor had to add an antipyretic to her anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling medication.

Because of the fever, Ruby remained in a groggy state with little appetite. When she occasionally woke up, she could only manage to drink some porridge before falling back to sleep.

After two days of this, her fever finally subsided, and her injuries were much less swollen. Some of the bruises started to turn yellow, a sign of improvement.

During these two days, Steve stayed at the hospital all the time. Each time Ruby woke up, she could see him sitting by her bed, either feeding her porridge or giving her medicine.

One night, as her fever persisted, she kept kicking off her blanket. However, the blanket would quickly be placed back on her. In a daze, she opened her eyes to see Steve wiping her face with a towel, which had a strong smell of alcohol.

Throughout all this, the Gregorys weren’t informed of Ruby’s injuries and believed she was with Steve.

Steve didn’t go to his company during Ruby’s injury. However, it did not mean that he didn’t have to deal with company affairs. So, whenever Howard Coleman, Rusell Henris, and Edward Woods visited Ruby at the hospital, they brought some documents for him.

Steve had no intention of handling documents during the two days of Ruby’s high fever. It wasn’t until after her fever subsided that he started to deal with the accumulated paperwork.

Ruby began to recover and was no longer spending most of her 24 hours a day asleep as she had in the previous days. She now had more time to stay awake.

The hospital room was shared only by her and Steve. He sat on a nearby sofa, overseeing a laptop and a mountain of files, so she didn’t want to disturb his work. Instead, she passed the time alone, either browsing Twitter, reading news, shopping on Amazon, or playing mobile games. Tired from playing, she would close her eyes and sleep, then, waking up, continue entertaining herself as before.

After a while, Ruby found this routine quite boring. It might have been because she had gotten too much sleep lately that she became so spirited and couldn’t fall asleep at night.

Being cooped up in the hospital room for so long, Ruby developed a strong desire to go out for a walk. After a nurse measured her blood pressure as part of her daily routine check, she finally couldn’t help but ask, “When can I be discharged?”

The nurse looked at Ruby with a smile and said, “Ms. Gregory’s discharge is scheduled for the 10th of this month.”

Ruby looked at the date on her phone and realized there were still three days left. She couldn’t stay here even for three more hours, “I’m fine now. Can I go through the discharge procedures today?”

“For that, Ms. Gregory, you’ll need to discuss it with Mr. Burton.”</p