My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

Looking at the people walking in and out of the lobby, I asked the receptionist, "Does Miss Burton come frequently these days?"

The receptionist nodded and looked at my belly. Hesitatingly, she replied, "Ever since Mr. Roberts came to Jarold City. Madam, you are...?"

"I'm Hendrix's wife." Pointing at my baby bump, I smiled softly, "Soon, I'm going to give birth to our child."

Then, I brushed the lady's doubtful gaze aside and called Hendrix.

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"Hello!" The flirtatious female voice was obviously not Hendrix's.

It was Andrea.

"I'm looking for Hendrix," I couldn't exactly say that I was uncomfortable with Andrea picking up the call. After all, it was normal for women to be obsessed with someone like Hendrix. "He's in a meeting," Andrea replied, a little too triumphantly. "By the way, you're about to give birth, aren't you?"

I narrowed my eyes in displeasure and hung up the phone straight away.

"Look, here's another woman dreaming of becoming Mr.

to!" Minnie was so worked up that her face turned red. She took

the lobby, and they were watching. Picking a fight

lowered my gaze at the phone again, this time calling Josiah. The

as distant as usual.

in

He replied curtly, "Yes."

come and fetch me? I didn't have an appointment with Hendrix, so the receptionist doesn't allow me to go

answered and hung up

very puzzled, still couldn't decide if she should

the front desk

and she was about to refute when someone came to the desk. The man requested, "Hi, I have an appointment

went back to her work, nodding efficiently, and she said, "Sure,

someone I knew. I turned around and saw that it was Troy, the president of Alford Audit, in

think that I would see him here, and I called him before I could

equally surprised too. He asked, "Mrs. Roberts, you're here too? But you're already so heavily pregnant. Shouldn't you stay in Ucrebury just to be safe? If you must work, surely there are matters you can take care