My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

"Arianna, do you really have to talk like that?" Hendrix didn't look very well. He seemed old.

I smiled faintly and replied without much emotion, "How can I? Mr. Roberts is so strong. It only took you a few hours to nearly kill me. I only fear I couldn't avoid you faster."

Hendrix was rendered speechless.

Perhaps the atmosphere was getting too dreadful, Hendrix didn't want to talk to me anymore, and he left with Andrea soon after that.

I laid on the hospital bed, feeling a little depressed and frustrated. When people went through a certain extent of events in life, they would lose hope for life.

A lot of things happened in the following few days. Sawyer's announcement on the headlines, Andrea reunited with her family, and Aaron returned to Ucrebury for the foreseeable future. But I didn't pay attention to any one of that news.

I laid quietly in the hospital for a week. I had already been pregnant for three months, and my baby bump was getting more noticeable as the day passed.

My lower abdomen bulged out slightly like a small hill. Sometimes, I would put my hands on it and fall into a daze. Sometimes I would stare at the ceiling blankly.

Hendrix came to the hospital every day. He sometimes would talk to me, but we would always end up quarreling.

the hospital. However, he was rich, so the nurses and social workers

bother to ask for the reason he didn't come. Minnie, on

knew something was wrong with me. I started to feel like I didn't want that

pregnant with his child, I could leave Hendrix and

about it, the more I wanted

wasn't right,

of the Ucrebury had bloomed. They filled up the streets from both sides, making

had been driving very slowly compared to usual. It was as if he wanted me to enjoy as much of the

look at the scenery that flashed past

long," I murmured under my breath. From the moment I met

cold. How did

deep breath, "You're getting heavy with pregnancy. You can put aside the Advancer

that he wanted to take me out to relax, but

put my hands on my bumps, "The Roberts Group's auditing should be over soon. I won't be in labor for the time being, so I think we should finish

a moment before he agreed, "Alright, if you insist. Come to me any time if you