To the Love of My Life

As Steve Burton finished scanning the documents and took the signing pen from her hand, he accidentally touched her fingertips.

Ruby Gregory quickly withdrew her hand, tightly gripping her clothes, and she could still clearly feel the lingering warmth from his touch on her fingertips.

The warmth turned somewhat scorching, sizzling, spreading along the veins of her fingertips and reaching her heart, causing her body to shiver gently, her heart seemingly about to pound out of her throat.

Mr. Burton signed his name skillfully, and Secretary Ms. Taylor spoke, “Mr. Burton, the car is ready.”

Steve Burton nodded and then handed the documents and signing pen to Ruby Gregory.

As Ruby Gregory took them with both hands, Steve Burton paused for a moment before finally speaking, “I have a dinner gathering tonight.”

With just a simple six words, he informed her about his whereabouts, making Ruby’s heart instantly warm and sweet. She gave him a gentle smile, nodded, then turned around with a slightly blushing face, and walked back to her chair.

Ruby Gregory sat in her chair for quite some time before she recovered and realized that Steve Burton had already left the company.

She caressed the fingertips that had just been touched by Steve Burton for a long moment before turning on her computer, reached out through the company’s internal software, and sent a message to Ms. Taylor, asking about Steve Burton’s schedule for tonight.

Ms. Taylor quickly replied that there was a 6:30 dinner.

Ruby Gregory thanked her, turned off the computer, gathered her stuff, and right on time, it was the end of the working day.

First, she drove back to the Gregorys’, ate dinner, and then sat in the living room with Lady Gregory for a while. Following that, she directly went upstairs.

After taking a shower, Ruby Gregory looked out from her balcony onto the Burtons’ yard but didn’t see Steve Burton’s car. She glanced at the wall clock, and it was already 9 pm.

Steve Burton rarely went back to the Burtons’ Mansion from Monday to Friday, so it was likely that he would drink some alcohol during dinner tonight and probably stay at his apartment in the city.

Ruby returned to her bedroom, climbed into bed, but couldn’t fall asleep. After tossing and turning for a long time, she noticed the gift box with the necktie on the sofa, and after a moment’s hesitation, she got out of bed, went to the dressing room, changed her clothes, grabbed her bag and gift box, and went downstairs.

Maxwell Gregory and Lady Gregory had already gone back to their rooms to rest, and only a maid was watching TV in the living room. Seeing Ruby Gregory coming down, she immediately stood up, “Miss, are you going out this late?”

Ruby nodded. As she was changing her shoes at the Foyer, she suddenly thought of something and said to the maid, “I won’t be home for dinner tomorrow morning. If asked, tell my parents I’m at Steve’s.”

“Yes, Miss.”

With that, Ruby left her house, got into her car, smoothly reversed, turned, then drove out of the Gregorys’ gate.

The roads at night were not congested, and it only took half an hour for Ruby to arrive at Steve’s apartment.

After their engagement was set, Steve gave her the key and password to his apartment.

Ruby smoothly entered the underground garage, parked the car, took the elevator, and arrived at Steve’s apartment door. After inputting the password, she opened the door, turned on the light, changed her shoes, walked into the house, then realized that Steve had not returned yet.