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.

you, Linda." Ashley

thank you to

message Francis to ask him what

thinking for a while before proceeding to delete the entire

kitchen, preparing the soup she was going to take

stomach as she

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

spoke, she waved the thermos in her hand

I just thought about it and maybe you

wrong? What happened?" Linda

just occurred to me that Francis is taking care of Ellie in the hospital. I think it's better if we give them their

right. My lady, you're so considerate. Let me serve you the

Linda. I'm not hungry

vomiting the minute she caught sight of

had

her ribs and corn soup, pig's trotters and winter melon soup, crucian carp soup

were beneficial to the

was

wanted to eat other food

to that, she also felt

didn't want to

she normally didn't care about her figure, she disliked the idea of gaining weight after

home to

Ashley also heard that he had consulted several obstetricians and listed down all the things he needed to know

nutritionists who could

who had told Ashley

Ashley grew a little restless

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

she dreamt that she was eating hot and sour rice noodles. Just as she was enjoying her

found that Andrew

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

why he didn't even stir when

order food. She couldn't help but stroke her stomach. She had eaten so much during dinner but she still felt

at the photo of the hot and

so focused on her phone that she didn't notice that Andrew had woken

at her phone and wrapped his

you remember the hot and sour rice noodles we ate in that restaurant last time?

turned to look at him,

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

looked at Andrew in a

to pull back the

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

Then he left.

thought back to what she had just

figure out what he

mentioned her

she really didn't feel like

up as she waited for

Although the New Year had already passed, it

morning, it shouldn't be surprising that no one was

his phone and made a

was sleeping soundly when his phone