Chapter 533: Chapter 533: Let’s Pretend She’s Dead (3)
 

After seeing that message, Steve Burton immediately changed his flight and flew to Poham. He then took a taxi to Zhouzhuang.

On the night Ruby Gregory got drunk, Steve was waiting outside the hotel and saw Edric Reat carrying her inside.

When Ruby woke up again, it was the next day. She was still wearing yesterday’s clothes and lying in her bedroom’s bed.

Edric, meanwhile, had not yet woken up and was still sleeping on the living room sofa.

They caught a train at 10 a.m. and arrived at Ciawell ten hours later. As they emerged from Ciawell West Station, Ruby hesitantly felt a sense of trepidation. She first apologized to Edric, then gritted her teeth and said that from now on, they would be strangers to each other, and she hoped he would forget what had happened these three days.

At the bustling Ciawell West Station, Edric stared at her for a long while, then nodded his head and uttered a word: “Fine.”

Ruby moved her lips, but ultimately said nothing, and turned to leave.

Perhaps because of the impulsive mistake she had made, Ruby was nervous and scared. On returning to the Gregorys’ home, she did not question the slap on her face from Lady Gregory. Instead, the matter was laid to rest on her birthday.

Perhaps Lady Gregory also felt guilty for slapping her that day, and when she asked where Ruby had been for the past few days, she lied that she had been at a friend’s house. Lady Gregory did not press her further.

Afterward, she and Edric became complete strangers.

She and Steve still interacted in the same way as they always had.

Steve was still very busy, barely managing, but he still took her to Red Park Resort & Villas every month on the 10th.

She officially graduated in June, and on the evening of the 9th, there was a class reunion. Steve came that night, and since the next day was the 10th, he drove her directly to Red Park Resort & Villas that night.

And that night, she and Steve had their first time together.

Afterward, when they woke up the next day, Steve abandoned her, as if he had become a different person.

Steve’s sudden change of face three years ago left Ruby wondering for more than a thousand days during her time in Costa Luna about what she had done wrong to upset him.

She had wondered if it was because he had found out about her trip to Zhouzhuang with Edric.

But as no one but her and Edric knew about their trip to Zhouzhuang, she quickly dismissed the idea. Even when she had called Edric in her dormitory, she hadn’t dared mention his name because there were other classmates present. She’d only said that she was Ruby, asking to meet him in front of the school library.

What she never imagined, however, was that no matter how well she tried to hide it, he ultimately found out about it.

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Ruby felt her emotions were like a rollercoaster these days: ups and downs, twists and turns. However, at this moment, she was utterly plunged into the depths.

She’d been fearful that Steve didn’t know about the incident three years ago, and now that he knew, she realized she was even more afraid.

It seemed that Steve truly didn’t like her, which was why he had been giving her birth control pills and did not want her child…

With a stiff expression, Ruby sat on the sofa like a statue until she felt a twinge of pain in her abdomen.