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."

hire a private instructor

along with me to the prenatal care classes, I refused, "No, give me some time to think about it. Plus, you must be busy with work.

his hands were still rubbing my back. "Is she your husband, or

massage. And I said, "But you have a lot of work to do at the company. Just let her accompany me to the classes so that you have some

corner of his lips lifted. His grin was a little cheeky, and he teased, "Are you worried about me

had nothing to hide, so I nodded and assured, "I don't mind having Monique as

company's matters to Austin and Josiah. I'm going to take parental leave till you give

joking. It's best if you go to work as usual. If we stuck together every day, we might end up quarreling more often. You should work

had already been arguing frequently. If we were to see each other

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 work for a

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

of the idea of him not going to work. I thought about it

day, I was aware that traveling

a pajama to put on, and answered, "Probably in these coming few days, just to familiarise with the environment there. As for moving the headquarters, we'll start after you've given birth." Sᴇaʀch