To the Love of My Life

Chapter 665: Chapter 665: Syrup, Candy, Sugar (15)
 

“Henry Burton, Nathaniel Burton, Charles Burton…

However, she always felt something wasn’t quite right with these names, yet she couldn’t think of better ones after racking her brain for a while.

Seeing Steve Burton staring at the paper filled with her handwriting, Ruby Gregory’s eyes flickered for a moment. Although Steve didn’t know about her pregnancy, she dared not tell him either. But regardless, this would always be his child. It seemed only right that he should give his child a name, to provide a little warmth and fatherly love to their child…

“Choosing a name for a child is so difficult. Now that there’s another baby, choosing becomes much harder,” Ruby said, her long eyelashes dropping for a moment. She then pushed the piece of paper in front of Steve, “Can you tell me which names on the list you think are best?”n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Did they share a wordless understanding? In the past, he too, had thought about names for two children. The names he had thought of were for their future children.

If it were a boy, he would be called Daniel Burton, and if it were a girl, she would be called Kelly Burton.

The names had significant meaning to Steve Burton, they had Ruby in mind.

However, who would have guessed how unpredictable the world would be? She had ended up becoming pregnant, and the child was not his.

Despite this, he was so greedy that he wanted to keep these names to use for her child.

Steve took a deep breath and took the pen from Ruby’s hand. As he started to write on the paper, his fingers trembled slightly.

In his mind, he thought of writing Alexander Reat, Kelly Reat, and William Reat.

Steve knew that the baby would carry the “Reat” surname, but he couldn’t bring himself to write it. So, in the end, he crossed out the symbol for “thinking” (思) in the names “Thinking of Ruby,” “Thinking of Daniel,” and “Thinking of Kelly,” and instead, wrote the symbol for “remembering” (念) next to each of them.

Steve finished writing in one go. After that, he quickly threw the pen on the table.

Ruby leaned over, looking at the characters Steve had written. She said, her voice strong, yet tender, “Andy, Daniel, Kelly…”

Then, with surprise on her face, she looked towards Steve and said, “It seems better than ‘Thinking of Ruby,’ ‘Thinking of Daniel,’ and ‘Thinking of Kelly’. Let’s decide on these names! When all three babies are born, we’ll name them these!”

“Andy, Daniel, Kelly…”

Once, he had imagined picturing names for their future children together. Yet, who could have known that this day would actually come, but he was here with her, thinking about names for her and another man’s child.

Steve’s heart, which had been filled with sorrow and suppressed all morning, seemed to shatter at this moment.

But, Ruby, who knew nothing about his feelings, stared at the names, her face beaming with joy. She turned around excitedly and said, “The formal names are done, but we haven’t thought of their nicknames. What should we call them?”

As Ruby spoke, her head tilted. She glanced around their private dining room.

On the dining table was a plate of colorful fruit candies, wrapped in clear packaging paper. They looked attractive and exquisite.

Those candies were actually not for eating. They were just for decoration.

However, as Ruby looked at the plate of candies, a flash of inspiration hit her. She murmured to herself, “Fruit candies…fruit candies…Their nicknames will be Chise, Candice, and Triplet. How about that?”

Chise, Candice, and Triplets… Fruit candies…Such cute nicknames… hearing them should make anyone happy and want to smile, but Steve couldn’t bring himself to smile. He just watched Ruby, his face stiff, and slowly nodded his head.