To the Love of My Life

Chapter 548: Not Disturbing, That’s My Tenderness (2)
When holding his glass of alcohol, Steve Burton glanced around at the people at the dining table and finally rested his eyes on Maya Mitchell, who was sitting diagonally across from him. His expression paused slightly before turning indifferent and averted his gaze.

Maya Mitchell, a month ago, when she learned that Ruby Gregory and Steve Burton’s engagement celebration had been canceled, she revived like a shot of adrenaline, feeling like she had traveled back to three years ago when she found out that Ruby had gone to Costa Luna.

When she fell for Steve, she had always been waiting for the right opportunity, and perhaps God knew about her day and night expectations. Eventually, near the end of college, she caught Ruby’s flaw.

At that time, she hadn’t done much; she just saw Ruby putting a card in a bedside organizer when she was opening a gift box from Edric Reat. Then Ruby borrowed money to go out. She simply followed Ruby out of the dorm, watched her leave with Edric, and returned to the dorm when no one was paying attention. She took that card from Ruby’s organizer and then went to the footbridge opposite the school, spending US$3 to buy a random SIM card and sent the message on the card to Steve.

Back then, she was not as ruthless and poisonous as she is now.

Actually, she had predicted that Ruby and Steve would part ways.

Steve loved Ruby so much that any hint of impurity would be intolerable in his eyes, given his pride.

As for Ruby, she was too obsessed with her dreams since childhood and was a bit of a late bloomer. Once moved, she would be at a loss.

She just took advantage of their weaknesses and made some adjustments to make them part ways, just like they did three years ago.

She wasn’t a hundred percent sure, but the situation at the time didn’t allow her to think about the consequences. She couldn’t just watch Ruby marry Steve, so when she found out that the vitamin bottle in Ruby’s bag was a gift from Steve, she bought a long-term contraceptive pill that looked similar and found a suitable opportunity to quietly replace it.

Long-term contraceptive pills prevent pregnancy. How could the Burtons allow a woman to have no offspring for such a big family business? If Ruby couldn’t get pregnant, it would cause conflict. If Ruby did get pregnant, she would find out about the contraceptive pill’s existence, and she would only think that Steve gave her the pill.

No matter what the final outcome was, Ruby and Steve would eventually have a falling out, and she just needed to stay in the dark unnoticed and wait for her wishes to come true.

In the following month, she was in high spirits whenever something happy happened. She worked as hard as she could in the hope of entering the upper management of her company one day and meeting Steve at a dinner party.

Chances for interaction would always need to be created to have further progress, right?

However, she was grateful that she no longer needed to rely on Ruby to create such opportunities.

Maya now looked much prettier than a month ago – a sharper jawline, a higher nose, and she must have undergone some plastic surgery. Even while sitting at the dining table, dining and conversing with others, her demeanor was much more elegant.