“He was not at the office last night?”

“No. He was in the study the whole night. He only came down when breakfast was ready,” she added.

I stared at the doorway, knitted my brows, and sighed. Men behave like children sometimes and will go out of their way to spite others.

Who would believe Mr. Ashton Fuller has this childish side of him? Unfortunately, he simply could not stay rational if the matter was about Marcus.

I left Mrs. Eriksen to her chores and fished out my phone to message Ashton. Get some sleep when you reach the office. No matter how busy you are, you need to get some rest.

I paused, then added, Professor Zidd said so. I did not want to show I was concerned.

I was amused by my own draft message.

even in the face of love. Ashton may be petty about matters concerning Marcus, but I knew he was a man of his words. If he

did not make any special efforts to reconcile after the quarrel, Ashton still picked me up for my pregnancy test

sure I conceived, but it would be reassuring to have a proper confirmation from the

waiting for the test results. He did not pick the calls out of respect for Professor Zidd. He excused himself to answer the call in a far corner only when Professor Zidd urged him

expected, I had successfully conceived, and our baby had developed in

fill me in on the possible complications in pregnancy. I was in the early stage of pregnancy, so I had to be more careful as there

thanked Professor Zidd and left his office with the test results in hand.

the only good

“My dear!”

take a deep breath to recover from the shock before I could speak. “You are here for your prenatal

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