My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Noticing my gaze, he coughed. "From now on, we'll go out to have a walk every day."

I nodded and asked, "What other books did you buy?"

He thought about the answer for a second before he said, "Just some books Josiah had recommended to me." He simply put it in a sentence, then he urged, "The rain stopped. Go upstairs and get a thicker coat."

"You were serious?" I didn't want to walk outside with him.

Hendrix nodded, and his eyes showed his determination. "I'll wait for you here."

He left me no choice but to go with him. I reluctantly trod upstairs to get a coat and headed out with him. The villas in Flora Hill were quite far away from one another.

Its purpose was to reserve enough green space for each villa. As a result, the neighborhood was huge.

Holding Hendrix's arm, I walked with him for a while before I began to feel tired to walk further. I stopped in my tracks and looked over at him. "Can we go home? We've been walking for a while now."

"It's not even ten minutes!" He was stern. "You need to walk for at least an hour."

little wet. The air was warm and humid, and the dim streetlamps cast shadows on the ground. The landscape was quite cozy. But I was a

nothing to talk about, so

stepped as we continued to stroll on. Then, a question popped up in my mind, and I asked, "Hendrix, what should we name the child?" My due date was

while. Then he squinted at me and asked, "What do you think about

that I would

Hendrix. "Ariel, the lion of God. Are you hoping that she'll turn

name. What if the child is a boy?" I didn't ask about the baby's gender in the past few prenatal checkups. So, we didn't know if the baby was

ground. He

lips twitched. I chided him,

waist and smiled, "I can't

eyes at him and

I simply squatted down by the road and threw a pebble at him. "Hendrix, I can't walk any farther! You go back by yourself." He looked down at me, and

looked up at him. "I can't even walk for one more step,"

beside me and,

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