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

don't need to say thank you to me," Linda

her phone out, intending to message Francis to ask

thinking for a while before proceeding

preparing the soup

clutched her stomach as she made her way to

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

she waved the thermos in her hand to show

just thought about it and

happened?" Linda looked at Ashley

occurred to me that Francis is taking care of Ellie in the hospital. I think it's

lady, you're so considerate.

thanks, Linda. I'm

actually felt like vomiting the minute she caught sight

Linda had been

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

to the

then, Ashley was already sick

eat other food too, not just

she also felt as if she had

didn't want

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

stayed at home to accompany

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

nutritionists who

who had told Ashley

Ashley grew a little restless when

eat the cake from a certain shop in the south

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

light and found that Andrew was still sleeping soundly

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

could explain why he didn't

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

she stared at the photo of the hot and

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

and wrapped his

and sour rice noodles we ate in that restaurant last

turned to look at him, her eyes

He put on his clothes as if he

looked at Andrew in a

Ashley attempted to pull back the quilt

pressed her back down the bed. "Wait for

Then he left.

his figure recede, she thought back to

couldn't figure out what

mentioned

that she thought about it, she really didn't feel like eating

up as she waited for Andrew

New Year

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

his phone

soundly when his