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 was very

say thank you to me," Linda

Francis to ask him what

then paused, thinking for a while before

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

she made her way to the

what's wrong? I packed some black-boned chicken soup

spoke, she waved the thermos in

just thought about it and maybe you shouldn't

wrong? What happened?" Linda looked

care of Ellie in the

lady, you're so considerate. Let

Linda. I'm

actually felt like vomiting the minute she caught sight of the

since she had gotten pregnant, Linda had been

her ribs and corn soup, pig's trotters

were beneficial to

then, Ashley was

to eat other food too, not

that, she also felt as if

want to

she disliked the

Francis stayed at home to accompany the

he had consulted several obstetricians and listed down all the things

also hired a couple of nutritionists who could watch over Ellie's

Andrew who had told

grew a little restless

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

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

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

sleeper. But when he slept

why he didn't even stir when Ashley

order food. She couldn't help but stroke her stomach. She

stared at the photo of the hot and sour rice noodles, her

focused on her phone that she didn't notice that

glanced at her phone and wrapped his arms around

rice noodles we ate in that restaurant last time? I'm craving for it

to look at him, her eyes

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

looked at Andrew

to pull back

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

Then he left.

figure recede, she thought

then, she couldn't figure out what he was planning

mentioned

thought about it, she really didn't

put her phone aside and sat up

Although the New Year had already passed, it was still chilly

three or four in the morning, it

took out his phone and made

manager was sleeping soundly