A Love Trap

As soon as Ashley finished speaking, she heard Francis's voice.

Needless to say, she was stunned.

Ellie was pregnant?

Could it be true?

After pausing for a moment, Ashley was suddenly overwhelmed with joy.

Even over the phone, Francis could hear the excitement in her tone.

"Ellie's pregnant? Where is she now? I need to see her!"

She was even more excited than when she found out she, herself was pregnant.

Francis frowned upon hearing this. He quickly objected, "No, no, Ashley, you don't have to come. I promise you I'll take good care of Ellie. You're pregnant too so you shouldn't be going on long trips. We'll visit you soon."

If Ashley came over to the hospital, Francis was afraid that Andrew would beat him up.

He understood that Andrew valued Ashley the most.

To Andrew, Ashley was precious and unparalleled—not even his good friends could compare.

It was beyond doubt that Andrew treated them, his friends, differently.

Ashley was about eight months into her pregnancy. Andrew didn't even want to go to work anymore. He just wanted to stay at home with Ashley.

Francis wasn't going to let Ashley come to the hospital to see Ellie. If anything happened to her, he would be in big trouble.

"I'm fine. I need to see Ellie."

Ashley was a little worried about Ellie.

"No, Ashley, don't come. Just stay home. Ellie is fine. I have to go and take care of her now. Bye!"

With that, Francis hung up without even waiting for Ashley to respond.

Ashley put the phone aside and began anxiously pacing around the room.

"My lady, what is going on?"

Linda hurriedly approached her as soon as she came out of the kitchen and saw Ashley walking around the room.

"Linda, Ellie's pregnant!" Ashley said excitedly as she looked at Linda.

"Oh, are you talking about Miss Su?"

Linda was pretty familiar with Ellie since she often came to visit Ashley. Besides, she frequently heard her name from Ashley.

"Yes, that's her."

"That's great. I bet Miss Su must be very happy right now," Linda gushed.

"Oh, Linda, would you mind going to the hospital to check up on Ellie for me? I can't go there myself so I figured I'd ask you."

"Sure," Linda agreed without hesitation.

Linda." Ashley was

say thank you to me," Linda

intending to message Francis to ask him what hospital they

while before proceeding to

kitchen, preparing the soup she was going to

she made her way to

packed some black-boned chicken soup to bring to

waved the thermos in her hand to show to

thought about it and maybe you

happened?" Linda

that Francis is taking care of Ellie in

My lady, you're so considerate. Let

I'm not

minute she caught

she had gotten pregnant, Linda had been cooking soup for her

her ribs and corn soup, pig's trotters and

which were beneficial to the health of pregnant

was already sick of

eat other food too, not

also felt as if she had

didn't want to

her figure, she disliked the idea of gaining weight after giving birth to the

Francis stayed at home to accompany the pregnant

to her. Ashley also heard that he had consulted several obstetricians and

of nutritionists who could watch over

Andrew who had told

grew a little restless when night

to eat the cake from

she was eating hot and sour rice noodles. Just as she was enjoying her meal in her

that

Andrew was a light sleeper. But when he slept next to Ashley,

he didn't even stir when Ashley suddenly

website where she could order food. She couldn't help but stroke her

photo of the hot and sour

on her phone that

at her phone and wrapped his arms around

rice noodles we ate in that restaurant

to look at

and got up. He put on his clothes as if he was

looked at Andrew in a

to pull back the quilt

pressed her back down the bed. "Wait for me. I'll be back

Then he left.

watched his figure recede, she thought back to what

out what he was planning to

had just mentioned her

she thought about it, she really didn't feel

phone aside and sat up as she

New Year had already passed, it was still

or four in the morning, it shouldn't be surprising that no one was

out his phone and

manager was sleeping soundly when