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.

Ashley

say thank you to me," Linda said

her phone out, intending to message Francis to ask him what hospital they were

for a while before proceeding

back in the kitchen, preparing the soup she was going to

her stomach as she made

lady, what's wrong? I packed some black-boned chicken soup to bring to Miss Su later. It's very

thermos in her hand to show to

thought about it and

happened?" Linda looked

Francis is taking care of Ellie in the hospital.

so considerate. Let me serve you the soup

I'm not hungry

minute she caught

she had gotten pregnant, Linda had been

ribs and corn soup, pig's trotters and winter melon

to the

Ashley was already sick of drinking

other food

to that, she also felt as if she

didn't want to get

she disliked the idea of gaining weight after giving birth

Francis stayed at home to

he had consulted several obstetricians and listed down all the things he

couple of nutritionists who could watch over Ellie's

who had told Ashley all

little restless

would often have cravings. One night, she suddenly wanted to eat the cake from a

and sour rice noodles. Just as she was enjoying her meal in her dream, she

on her bedside light and found that Andrew was still sleeping soundly

But when he slept next to Ashley, he

didn't even

browsing the website where she could order food. She couldn't help but stroke her stomach. She had eaten so much during dinner but

photo of the hot and sour rice noodles, her

was so focused on her phone that

at her phone and wrapped

sour rice noodles we ate

turned to look at him,

suddenly lifted the quilt and got up. He put on his

at Andrew in a

are you going?" Ashley attempted to

bed.

Then he left.

his figure recede, she thought back to what she had just

couldn't figure out what he was

mentioned her cravings

it, she

up as she waited for Andrew to come

New Year had already passed, it was

it was about three or four in the morning, it shouldn't be surprising

took out his phone

manager was sleeping soundly when his