Chapter 615: Chapter 615: A Virtue Called Sharing (5)


    Steve Burton was trying to ease the atmosphere, but sitting across from him, Ruby Gregory stopped her chopstick-holding gesture when she heard his words. Her lips moved for quite a while before she finally raised her eyes and looked at Steve, saying, “Actually, I’ve cooked a meal for you before, but you didn’t eat it.”


    Ruby’s words werepletely unexpected for Steve. The soupdle in his hand struck the porcin bowl with a crisp sound, and he was dumbfounded for quite some time before he finally looked up at Ruby. After hesitating for a long time, he asked, “You… you’ve cooked for me before?”


    Ruby clutched her chopsticks tightly and stared at Steve without speaking, just giving a slight nod.


    Her nod was tiny, but Steve saw it clearly.


    Ruby had cooked for him? When did this happen? Why didn’t he know?


    Vaguely, Steve felt that he might have missed something very important.


    He knew that if he didn’t ask Ruby exactly what was going on and pretended to bepletely ignorant, he might feel more relieved. However, asking would undoubtedly make him ufortable.


    Even so, Steve hesitated for a moment before he finally asked in a slightly warm and deep voice, “When did this happen?”


    As he asked this question, Steve felt his heart stop in that instant. He stared straight at Ruby, focusing intently on what she was about to say next, as if afraid of missing something important.


    With Steve’s question, Ruby’s mind conjured the scene of that day: She had cooked a whole table of dishes singlehandedly, heating and reheating the food over and over. After waiting for him to return, all she got was a simple “I’ve eaten.” She then sat alone at the dining table, eating food that had been heated several times and tasted off,pletely without appetite, forcing herself to swallow it like a robot.


    Although several months had passed since that event, when Ruby recalled that day, she could still feel the profound sense of loss.


    Ruby lowered her gaze, paused for a while, and then spoke in a rxed tone, “It was the day I went to your apartment to ask for your opinion on our engagement outfits.”


    Having said that, Ruby raised her eyelids to nce at Steve, then quickly lowered them again, her lips forming a faint smile: “You came back to the apartment somewhatte. When I asked if you had eaten, you said you had.”


    Steve frowned, thought about it for a moment, and then realized it seemed vaguely familiar. It turned out to be the evening three days before their engagement ceremony.


    At that time, Steve’s heart was heavy due to an ident that urred within Gregory’s Enterprises and the US$6,860,000 she brought to help solve the problem.


    During that period, he was terribly down, and everything he did seemed a bit restless. He attended a dinner party that night and drank quite a bit of alcohol. When he returned and saw her in his apartment, he was somewhat surprised.


    He remembered that on that day, she had indeed approached him to ask if he had eaten.


    She also asked for his opinion on their engagement outfits.