A Love Trap

After she finished the meal, she was so full that her stomach bulged a little.

By the time she was done, Nolan had almost finished eating as well. He looked at her and frowned. He knew how much she could eat in the past.

How come she ate so much now?

"Get up. Let's go out for a walk," Nolan told Chloe.

"No, I don't want to move right now."

All she wanted after dinner was to go to sleep.

She wanted to go to bed full.

Nolan pressed his lips together and thought about what she had promised him to do tonight. But now, she was pregnant. Although he did not have much common knowledge about pregnancy, he knew that pregnant women were not allowed to do strenuous exercise.

Looking at Chloe, he felt depressed.

If it were not for Chloe's natural reaction to the news, he would have thought that she had already known that she was pregnant and still promised him to make love.

Looking at Chloe who had now almost fallen asleep, Nolan walked over to her, scooped her up, and headed for the bedroom.

As if Nolan's smell was soothing, Chloe felt safe in his arms and drifted off.

Looking at her reaction, Nolan put her on the bed and fetched some water to clean her face. Then, he washed her feet for her and then covered her with the quilt. After that, he went to the bathroom for a shower.

The next day, Chloe was still dazed when she woke up. She wondered how she fell asleep last night.

She vaguely remembered that she came home from Cynthia's house, and then Nolan came home and made her an entire table of delicious food.

Then, she covered her mouth with her right hand and put her left hand on her belly.

She recalled what she had almost forgotten. It was not just a dream. She was already pregnant.

"Ah!"

Chloe joyfully rolled back and forth on the bed, her soft hair getting messed up all over.

of millet porridge in his hand. What came into his view was Chloe rolling on the

He was speechless.

this a side effect of

Nolan, she quickly stopped rolling on the bed. She sat up and looked

pregnant. Are you happy? Are you excited? We're going to have a baby," Chloe said as if she still could not believe it.

It's going to be our child,"

breakfast," he added and walked

"Okay."

up straight and let Nolan feed

as she took a small mouthful of the porridge,

is this? It's horrible

that you're only allowed

"What?"

with a bitter look on her

just eat

like weeping

there would be many things she would have to deal with

sitting quietly on the couch in the living room. Nolan was sitting

something important to tell her, and it was related to the baby. Upon hearing this, Chloe sat quietly

her face, Nolan's heart was

lot of research online. Today, he had his assistant bring a lot of material about pregnancy and about what pregnant

couple of books were already on

a few of

Chloe and started slowly when she was almost running out of patience. "I did some research online last night about pregnancy. You are pregnant now, so you can't use the computer or your cellphone for more than one hour per day. The radiation from the computer or

use the computer? Then

take a leave from work. You're pregnant. You have to be careful about everything. I can't let

Nolan had already learned some of the vital pregnancy information since they had decided

hire two nutritionists. There are a lot of things that you can't eat now that you're pregnant. What if you eat something that's bad for the baby? You have to agree with me on this

anticipated that Chloe would object, Nolan

"And..."

had listened to his long

more when I learn something new. I'll