Under the heiress facade

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.

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 how she kept saying no toward the end of the night, but Bernard did not let her go at all.

was truly going overboard these days. He never would

arms around her so that 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."

found that it was a Southern

it. Thus, he could only arrange for it

cake here. I'll prepare some pasta for you to tide

silent treatment so that he would get the

pasta he had prepared to the room. By then, Hera had already gotten out of bed to put on

after, the doorbell rang. Hera opened the door to see Thiago with his luggage

well as my

said while taking a container from

cake that looked absolutely delicious. Just as Hera had been craving for hummingbird cake, Thiago brought

"You're welcome. My mom knows how much you and Grandma Catherine enjoyed it, so she prepared some for

noticed how Hera did