Chapter 539 - Chapter 539: Chapter 539: Let’s Pretend She’s Dead (9)

Chapter 539: Chapter 539: Let’s Pretend She’s Dead (9)

She could never understand why, when she was almost kidnapped and in the hospital, Steve Burton took such good care of her. She clearly felt that he cared about her deep down, even going as far as proposing marriage after she was discharged.

But why did he give her long-term birth control pills and not want her child?

In all the events that took place during these days, she had never considered not wanting the child in her belly, especially after last night when she thought she had nearly lost the baby. The panic in her heart was as if she was about to lose the entire world. She had never had such a feeling in her life, and at that time, she thought that if she lost the child, she would rather not live. She even thought that if only God would let her keep the child, she would be willing to shorten her life by ten years.

Edric Reat was actually speechless at Ruby Gregory’s words. After a long while, he said, “Ruby, have you misunderstood something? He is planning to get engaged and marry you, how could he possibly not want your child?”

“I didn’t misunderstand anything. After I got together with him, one day he gave me a bottle of vitamins. I always thought it was vitamins and I took them on time. It wasn’t until I got pregnant that I found out…” Ruby’s face paled as she said this, her lips trembling slightly. She gripped the bedsheet tightly and whispered, “It was long-term birth control pills.”

Edric’s expression faltered, a murderous aura emerging between his brows, “He made you take long-term birth control pills? If he wasn’t planning on having your child, why did he want to marry you? I’m going to Pristine’s Corporation right now to ask him clear it up!”

As he spoke, Edric picked up his coat and headed towards the door of the room.

Ruby pursed her lips, speaking to the rarely angry Edric, “Edric, he knows about the incident three years ago.”

Edric’s footsteps stopped abruptly, and after a long pause, he turned around and looked at Ruby, “Is it because of the incident three years ago that he treated you this way?”

Edric swallowed twice, “Three years ago, nothing happened between us. We just went to Zhouzhuang together. I’ll explain it to him.”

“Of course he knows that nothing happened between us…” Her first time was given to Steve Burton, he must have known clearly.

Edric pursed his lips, waited for a while, and then understood the meaning in Ruby’s words.

He was silent for a long time before saying, “Back then, you went to Zhouzhuang with me just because you had a fight with your mom and acted impulsively. I can explain this to him for you.”

Ruby stared at the white bedsheets, looking at them for a long while before saying in a somewhat downcast tone, “Although what happened back then was indeed impulsive, I did do it after all. I tried my best to marry him, but I went out and played with another man for three days and nights. Just like he said, I kept my first time as a tool to marry him. You don’t know how I thought about it at the time, I didn’t know how to clear up and explain for myself. In the past, no matter what I did or thought,

my only goal was to marry him…”