Chapter 602: Chapter 602: Sweet and Warm Heating Up (6)
 

Steve Burton handed the menu straight to Ruby Gregory. After flipping it open, Ruby casually looked through it, eventually ordering only a vegetable dish, before passing the menu back to Steve.

Although there were only two of them, Steve proceeded to order all the signature dishes at the Fire Deer Restaurant. Near the end of the order, he saw steamed crab and Spicy Crab listed on the menu.

Ruby had loved crab since she was a child. With no hesitation, Steve ordered an additional crab for the waitress. After a moment, he changed his mind and said, “Make it two.”

“One is enough.” Before the waitress could respond, Ruby, who was sitting across from Steve, spoke up. She then turned to Steve, “You can have it – crab has a cold nature, and I can’t eat it.”

The Burtons had had pregnant women in their family before, but Steve had never paid attention to what pregnant women could eat or their precautions. Hearing Ruby’s words, he hesitated for a moment, then canceled the crab order.

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The dishes at Fire Deer Restaurant were indeed authentic in taste. Ruby had a good appetite and ate a bowl of rice, while Steve’s appetite was particularly good.

After finishing the meal, Steve settled the bill and escorted Ruby home. The streetlights had started to turn on, and the rain that drenched the city throughout the afternoon had finally stopped.

As they passed a supermarket entrance, Ruby suddenly spoke up, “You can drop me off here. I need to buy some things at the supermarket.”

Throughout her pregnancy, she had been drinking pregnant women’s milk powder. Two days earlier, she realized she had run out, but she had been too busy to buy more. Now that they were passing by a supermarket, she remembered this task.

Steve glanced at Ruby, thought about it and said, “That’s perfect; I also need to pick up a few things.”

After saying this, a thought crossed his mind – would accompanying Ruby be considered as disturbing her?

Immediately, Steve reassured himself that her being pregnant meant she shouldn’t wander through supermarkets alone. If something like last time’s accident happened, what would they do? So, accompanying Ruby wasn’t disturbing her; he was just concerned for her safety.

Steve pushed the shopping cart behind Ruby, watching her as she focused on selecting items from the mother-baby section.

Her short hair had grown a little longer, tucked behind her ears, revealing a delicate and fair-skinned profile. Perhaps because she was a mother, even though the baby in her belly was still a few months away from birth, she would pick up baby toys and clothes, compare them, and then ask him with a curved eyebrow, “Which one looks better?”

Steve had imagined what his life with Ruby would look like if they had been together – how happy they would be. He had even thought about how, if she were pregnant, he would accompany her to a mother-baby store to choose baby products together.

He thought the image must be beautiful.

Reality proved it was indeed beautiful, but the beauty was tinged with sadness for him.

He thought to himself if Ruby was carrying his child, he would have bought her all the things she had looked at and liked, without making her agonize over which one to choose.

Ruby ultimately chose a brand of pregnant women’s milk. Surprisingly, her usual brand was no longer carried in this supermarket. In the end, she could only choose from the remaining options, settling on a more expensive brand.

Ruby put the milk powder in the shopping cart, walked with Steve to the checkout, and looked at the pregnant women’s milk.