Burn Me Once Burn With Me (Ruby Grayson) novel Chapter 552

“Call me if you need anything.”

Ruby waved her phone at Sylas with a weary sigh.

He finally blinked and nodded. “You should go. It’s late, and a man and a woman alone at this hour…”

“I’m leaving,” she cut in, turning and walking away without a backward glance.

The moment her slender figure disappeared around the corner, Sylas’s eyelashes fluttered as he murmured to the empty air, “I really wanted you to stay.”

By the time Ruby managed to hail a cab outside the hospital, it was deep into the night. She sank into the backseat, the tension that had gripped her for hours finally beginning to ease. As her mind quieted, her thoughts began to drift. She clutched her purse, her knuckles white. She knew, of course, that Sylas had been making a scene for her benefit.

Her divorce from Cassian Veyne was still fresh, and she’d been living under a microscope. Even though it was only a few familiar faces outside the operating room, there was no guarantee that rumors wouldn’t start to spread.

Ruby sighed, stepping out of the cab and into the moonlit grounds of Southgarde Estate.

The next morning, the first thing Ruby heard upon waking was her phone ringing. It was Pearl Steele.

“Ruby, I heard the Cunningham boy is in the hospital,” Pearl’s gentle voice said as Ruby groggily answered.

Assuming her aunt was calling to check on Sylas, she started to reply, “He’s fine…”

But Pearl cut her off. “Do you know which room Gennifer Grayson is in at Capital Prime Medical Center?”

Ruby paused, thrown by the abrupt change of topic.

“I was going to ask that Cunningham kid, but now that he’s laid up, it feels a bit cruel to press him for favors,” Pearl muttered, and Ruby’s mouth twitched as she finally understood the real reason for the call.

“Inpatient wing, fifth floor. Private room number eight.” Although she was still confused, she wasn’t about to withhold the information. “Aunt Pearl, what are you planning?” The title still felt a little awkward on her tongue.

“That’s a secret for now,” Pearl said mysteriously. “But don’t you worry about a thing. Just pretend I never asked.”

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