I had thought that Ashton had already forgotten about the matter of having our own kid. But little did I expect, he would bring this up again when he was drunk. Obviously, a kid was something, or someone rather, that would be with you your entire life. Who wouldn’t want their own flesh and blood?

After a long silence in my own thoughts, I went and lay down beside Ashton. “Ashton, do we really need our own child?” I asked with a hoarse voice.

I couldn’t be sure whether he had heard me or not since all he gave in response was a subtle wiggling of his eyebrows amidst his slumber.

He really did have a lot to drink.

The next day, the morning light had already shined through the yellowing leaves onto the ground when Ashton woke me up.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw him laying next to me, with a smile on his face.

 

“You’re awake!” I hoarsely exclaimed after rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

“Yup!” he answered with a nod and a smile.

 

“Does your head still hurt?” I asked as I couldn’t get what happened last night out of my mind.

He reassured me with a slight shake of his head and scooted closer to me. “Did you help me undress?” he whispered.

wrong?” I queried with some

To my surprise, he was only dressed in his boxers and nothing

any favors in hiding the awkwardness radiating from me. Trying to break the awkward atmosphere, I muttered, “Don’t get your hopes up. Nothing

Time felt like it stood still while

a beat, and without waiting for a response, he put his giant palm on my waist and got on top of me. I knew he

Ashton’s vigor in the morning really was outside the realm of

second time that day, I caught Ashton coming out of the

hospital for a checkup as she has been getting recurrent fevers that won’t go away!” I said begrudgingly while still on

he responded with

and you don’t need to be distracted right now,” I persuaded. Even though I only said it so that we could finally get a move on with our day, I knew that all I said was true. Things at the Fuller Corporation hadn’t settled down, and I

thought contemplating what I had just said, and

But what about…” he tried to ask before being

curt nod, he gave my forehead a quick peck before answering his phone on

I noticed that Ashton had left the clothes from the night before in the bathroom, so I picked them up and took them to the laundry room. However, upon placing his clothes into the

tablets. Why is he taking vitamins? Has he been feeling unwell

bedroom only to find Ashton hurriedly putting on his clothes halfway out the door. “What’s wrong? Did something happen?”

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