Chapter 510: Chapter 510: So You Knew It All Along (20)
Howard and Madeleine hadn’t been to the company for several days, but today, they both showed up at the regular noon meeting as if a gust of wind brought them there.

Steve, Rusell, and Edward already knew that the two had gotten their marriage certificates. Although they couldn’t figure out when Howard and Madeleine secretly got together, they still gave their heartfelt blessings. Even without a wedding ceremony, everyone still gave the couple generous red envelopes.

Madeleine accepted the red envelopes. When Rusell and Edward asked curiously, she pouted as usual, showing no difference from before, and said coyly, “I won’t tell you guys when Howard and I got together.”

Howard was sitting beside Madeleine, not showing any disdain or ridicule on his face upon hearing this; he just hooked his lips into a smile and signaled for the meeting to proceed quickly.

Steve Burton was agitated all day. He kept thinking about the burn mark he saw yesterday on Ruby Gregory’s hand while at Maxwell Gregory’s hospital room, which caused him to frequently lose focus while working. Even when Ms. Taylor, the secretary-general, handed him a document that required his signature, it took her urging him three times before he came back to reality and absentmindedly signed his name.

Now, during the meeting, he was even more distracted, constantly checking his watch. He used to visit Maxwell Gregory at three o’clock in the afternoon, but as soon as it was one-thirty, Steve closed the laptop in front of him and said, “You guys can continue the meeting; I have something to do, so I’m leaving first.”

On his way to the hospital, Steve still couldn’t resist stopping by a pharmacy and buying a tube of burn ointment.

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As soon as Ruby Gregory left the hospital room, she couldn’t hold back her tears.

Perhaps it was due to her pregnancy that her emotions fluctuated greatly. She couldn’t stop her tears no matter how hard she tried. In the end, her vision was blurred by a layer of mist, so much so that she accidentally bumped into someone when getting out of the elevator.

Ruby didn’t look up to see the person’s face, but simply said hurriedly, “I’m sorry.”

Then she went around the person and ran quickly towards the hospital exit.

Ruby breathed hard and ran a long distance before slowing down and wiping away her tears with one hand.

She had rushed out in a hurry, only carrying her bag and not wearing a coat. Now outside in Ciawell, the temperature was only one degree Celsius, but it was as if she couldn’t feel the cold at all. She just kept walking aimlessly along the street.

The afternoon sun warmly illuminated the entire city, the honking of cars, the songs from store windows, the chatter of pedestrians – all these sounds made the city lively and prosperous.

Yet Ruby felt increasingly desolate deep down in her heart, as if her entire body was numbed by the cold.

Only when she was exhausted did Ruby regain some clarity. Realizing that she was pregnant, she casually found a wooden chair by the roadside and sat down for a rest.

During her walk, she hadn’t felt very cold, but after sitting down, she discovered the cold rapidly spreading throughout her body. Just as she was about to find a store to buy a coat, someone suddenly came over and draped a coat around her shoulders.

PS: That’s it for today; we’ll continue tomorrow. Be sure to join ‘Time for Ruby’ group: 192412658 (limited spots, first come first served)

Reminder: It’s absolutely true that in real life, you could still get pregnant and have a healthy baby even while taking birth control pills. Doctors usually suggest you not to keep a baby conceived while on birth control, but that doesn’t mean the baby is guaranteed to have problems. Again, this is just a book, so let’s not get too serious about it. The health of the baby depends on probabilities, and those probabilities are determined by me! So, my plot is not a bug~ Let’s not get too serious, folks~