To the Love of My Life

Regardless of how nauseous Steve felt in his heart each time he heard Maya’s incongruous tone, the words that came out of his mouth sounded unruffled: “Edward just informed me, you’ve secured the Golas Group project.”

Steve continued with a seemingly genuine tone: “You’re even more outstanding than I thought. I’m glad to have employees like you.” He paused, then he added two words: “Maya.”

As he said those two words, a cold light flashed in the depths of his eyes.

The man’s voice was pleasant to hear, dry but deep. The two words, ‘Maya’, rolled off his lips marked by no great affection, yet Maya somehow felt an indescribable warmth. Her melancholy spirits, from spending each day sleeping beside Mr. Hudson, brightened considerably by hearing those two words.

What she wanted wasn’t much, truly not much. She merely wanted to get close to Steve, to capture his attention, to show him that she was better than Ruby Gregory.

Perhaps she’d never been recognized before, so at this moment, just hearing him say her name, filled her with exhilarating joy and satisfaction.

After being deeply moved for a long while, Maya responded softly: “Mr. Burton, you can count on me, I will continue working hard.”

Compared to Maya’s earnest words, Steve’s response seemed somewhat perfunctory: “I believe in you.”

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Truth be told, Steve never intended to ruin Ruby Gregory’s happiness, but he couldn’t resist his desire to treat her kindly.

Knowing that she was on Twitter and that she checked it a few times each day, in the office or during meetings, he also began to habitually pull out his phone to refresh his feed.

On his Twitter, he only followed her, so his feed was full of her posts.

At the 3 pm meeting, Steve refreshed his Twitter. He saw Ruby’s first post of the day: her sitting in the Gardenia Clubhouse, a photo with a piano, along with a caption: “Time to play the piano for my babies again.”

Her posts weren’t specifically directed at him, but when Steve saw this, he felt for a moment that she didn’t seem as distant as before.

Less than a minute after Ruby’s first post, a second one followed. It was a retweet of a contest post, the prize a beautiful baby stroller. She tagged three people, posted three words asking to win the contest and attached three excited emojis.

Seeing those three excited emojis, Steve was reminded of Ruby when she was younger, her expectant eyes when she sought his help. His lips pulled into a smile. Seeing this, Edward Woods, who had been discussing the past month’s performance, paused in his speech.

As soon as the meeting was dismissed and Steve had returned to his office, his secretary, Ms. Taylor, walked in with two documents.

Before Ms. Taylor could ask Steve to sign the documents, he thrust his phone towards her. Pointing at the screen, he said: “I was just about to find you. Get in touch with the person hosting this campaign, no matter their price, buy that baby stroller.”

He paused, then, pointing to Ruby’s Twitter post, he added: “Then, have them announce the winner, and tag this mother of twins, Mrs. Gregory.”

PS: I was supposed to update 9 chapters today, but I haven’t eaten yet. I need to go eat first. The remaining chapter will be updated tomorrow afternoon~ Praying for some luck, let me win for once!