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

need to say thank

out, intending to message Francis to

a while before proceeding to

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

stomach as she made

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

thermos

thought about it

Linda looked

Francis is taking care of Ellie in the hospital. I think it's better if we

you're so considerate. Let me serve you the soup

Linda. I'm

vomiting the minute she caught sight of

gotten pregnant, Linda had been cooking soup for her

soup, pig's trotters and winter melon soup,

which were beneficial to the

was already sick of drinking

wanted to eat other food too, not just

also felt as if she had become

didn't want

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

Francis stayed at home

several obstetricians and listed down

hired a couple of nutritionists who could watch

who had told Ashley

a little

to eat the cake from a certain shop in the south of the

hot and sour rice noodles. Just as

light and found that Andrew

sleeper. But when he slept next to Ashley, he

why he didn't even stir when Ashley suddenly

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

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

phone that she didn't notice that Andrew

wrapped

hungry. Do you remember the hot and sour rice noodles we ate in that restaurant last time? I'm craving

at him,

the quilt and got up. He put on

looked at Andrew in

Ashley attempted to pull back

bed. "Wait

Then he left.

recede, she thought back to

she couldn't figure out what he

just mentioned

thought about it, she really didn't feel like

up as she waited for Andrew to come

the New Year had already passed, it was still

the morning, it shouldn't be surprising that no

out his phone and made

manager was sleeping soundly when his