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

to say thank you

Francis to ask him what hospital they were

then paused, thinking for a while before proceeding to delete

was back in the kitchen, preparing the soup

as she made her way to

soup to

spoke, she waved the thermos in her

I just thought about it

wrong? What happened?" Linda looked at

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

right. My lady, you're so considerate. Let

Linda. I'm

minute she caught sight of

had gotten pregnant, Linda had been cooking

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

which were beneficial to

by then, Ashley was already sick

wanted to eat other food too,

to that, she also felt as if she had

want to get

her figure, she disliked the idea of

home to accompany the pregnant

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

also hired a couple of nutritionists

who had told Ashley

Ashley grew a little restless when night

eat the cake

night, she dreamt that she was eating hot and sour rice noodles. Just as she was enjoying her meal in her dream, she jolted

found that Andrew was still sleeping soundly

he slept next to

explain why he didn't even stir when

where she could 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 sour rice noodles, her

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

wrapped his

remember the hot and sour rice noodles we ate in that

to look at

got up. He put on his clothes as if

looked at Andrew in a

attempted to pull back the quilt to get

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

Then he left.

watched his figure recede, she thought back to what

she couldn't figure out what he was

just mentioned

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

her phone aside and sat up as she waited for Andrew to come

Year had already

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

his phone and made

manager was sleeping soundly when