She did not love him, but even so, she won his heart.
Thus, loving her became a perfect mime show performed by him alone.
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Every time Ruby Gregory and Steve Burton became intimately close, she would always sneak back to her room on the upper floor through the back door of the Gregorys' house, take a hot bath, change into long clothes, hide all the blue and purple marks on her body, and then go downstairs to greet her parents, telling them that she had returned home.
Tonight was no exception.
The reason for her doing this was simple, she just didn't want her parents to see her disheveled state.
However, tonight when Ruby Gregory snuck in through the back door, she unexpectedly bumped into Lady Gregory, who happened to be coming out of the kitchen with a glass of water.
The dress Madeleine got for her was mid-sleeve, and on the exposed pale wrists were traces of blue and purple caused by Steve Burton's binding.
