How could Bernard be so jealous? He even held onto his grudges.

"Can you not get jealous so easily? It was just a joke his father told Grandma before," Hera explained.

"Jokes are not allowed either!" Bernard answered earnestly.

Hera was speechless. "Why are you so narrow-minded?"

"You're always on my mind, so there's no room for anyone else. That's why I don't like such ridiculous jokes."

Seeing how serious he was being, Hera was afraid that Bernard would keep going on about it. She hurriedly appeased him by saying, "Yes, yes. Whatever you say goes."

Her words to appease him did not upset him. Instead, that gave him a chance. "Does that mean you've agreed that we can try for a baby?"

Before Hera could even object, he already kissed her.

awakened by a pang of hunger. The moment she moved, she felt sore everywhere, as if a bus had run over her. Bernard must have used all the energy he did not exert during his trip last night. She recalled

was truly going overboard these days. He never

she could get out of bed. But he already heard her stomach grumbling. "Do you want steak or pasta? I'll go and cook for you." "I want hummingbird cake," Hera

was a Southern delicacy. He had no

nearby, but they did not serve it. Thus, he could only arrange for it to be shipped

here. I'll prepare some pasta for you

silent treatment so that he would get

the pasta he had prepared to the room.

opened the door to see Thiago with

morning, Hera. I've brought the herbs with me, as well as my mom's homemade hummingbird cake.

time," Thiago said while taking a container from his

Just as Hera had been craving for hummingbird cake,

My mom knows how much you and Grandma Catherine

noticed how Hera did

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