My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

When I woke up, I turned around and saw Hendrix looking at me with his bright eyes. Surprised, I asked, "You're awake?"

He cocked his eyebrows and replied to me with another question, "Are you hungry?"

As I was barely awake, I shook my head. I wanted to stretch, but I got a shooting pain up my back whenever I tried. It was uncomfortable, and I couldn't help but whimper. "What's wrong?" Hendrix asked worriedly.

"My back is hurting so bad!" For no reason, I had always felt that the baby was growing too fast. I was only six months pregnant, but the baby bump was already so big.

When I took a shower the day before, I paid attention to it and saw some stretch marks. They looked somewhat ugly.

Hendrix put his hand on my waist to lightly massage me, and he suggested, "It's about time that you join prenatal care classes. Go and do some yoga to ease your pain. I'll go with you tomorrow."

I felt lazy, so I declined and gave an excuse,

"It's so troublesome to be going in and out every day."

a private instructor for

give me some time to think

still rubbing my back. "Is

subsided, so I shifted to the other side for him to massage. And I said, "But you have a lot of work to do at the company. Just let her accompany me

corner of his lips lifted. His grin was a little cheeky, and

hide, so I nodded and assured, "I don't mind

leave the company's matters to Austin and Josiah. I'm going to take parental leave till you give birth," Hendrix seemed serious about it,

quickly stopped him and said, "Hendrix, I wasn't joking. It's best if you go to work as usual. If we stuck together

were to see each other all the time, God

chuckled, "When did we ever quarrel? It's not like I've ever talked back to you. Also, I'm a CEO. Do you think money will become a problem if I don't

It had always been me who tried to find fault at the tiniest thing, and Hendrix would stay

I thought about it and changed the subject, "Didn't you mention

day by day, I was aware that traveling would be harder very

days, just to familiarise with the environment there. As for moving the headquarters, we'll start after you've given birth."