His Secret Baby: Six Months After Divorce (Mia and Ethan) novel Chapter 167

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Ethan checked the time: 8:30 PM.

They hadn’t eaten dinner yet. Mia had spent the last few hours with her head down, buried in work without ittering a single word of complaint. He had watched her rub her aching shoulders and neck several times, yet she efused to suggest calling it a night.

Now that she was asleep, the stubbornness had vanished from her face. In the soft light, he could see the faint, ine hairs on her delicate skin. Her thick, curled lashes fluttered against her cheeks with every breath.

The coldness in Ethan’s eyes gradually thawed into something softer.

He saw a stray lock of hair tickling her nose, making her twitch and rub the tip of her nose in her sleep. His long, legant fingers moved instinctively, brushing the hair away and tucking it behind her ear.

The soft contact sent a jolt through him, making his chest tighten with a strange, heavy pressure.

Mia suddenly let out a soft moan.

Ethan’s hand retracted as if he’d been electrocuted. The cold, detached mask immediately returned to his face.

Go home.”

He stood up, grabbed his coat, and strode out of the office.

The sound of the door opening and closing pulled Mia from her dreams. She sat bolt upright, realizing the seat cross from her was empty.

Go home.

The voice echoed in her ears, making her wonder if she had imagined it.

After a moment to clear her head, Mia quickly packed her files and left. She stopped by her seventeenth-floor office to handle a few more documents related to the Government Partnership Initiative before finally heading home around 11:00 PM.

Halfway there, her phone rang. it was Nina Torres.

Seriously, what is Ethan trying to do?” Nina asked. She knew Mia was working two jobs and staying at the office intil midnight every day, and she was worried sick. “Even if you weren’t pregnant, you shouldn’t be pushing

ourself like this!”

Mia hadn’t expected taking on the government project to lead to this level of chaos. “It’ll get better once the project is on track. Give me a month.”

in a month, the team would be settled, and the preliminary proposal would be finalized.

‘Don’t forget your prenatal check-up,” Nina reminded her. “Call me when it’s time. I’ll go with you.”

Mia did a quick mental calculation; it was indeed time for the next appointment. At a red light, she hit the brakes.

‘I can go by myself. You’re busy enough as it is, and you need time for Toby.”

Nina had returned to work, livestreaming at night and sleeping during the day while still trying to be there for her son. Mia didn’t want to take up any more of her time.

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It’s just a check-up, not the actual delivery. You don’t need to come,” Mia added, hoping to head off any

Irguments.

Nina sighed. “When does this miserable life end?”

In about thirty years, when we retire,” Mia joked.

Forget that!” Nina laughed. “I want to have some fun while I’m still young. By the time I retire, my teeth will be alling out and I’ll have cataracts. Even handsome guys will look ugly to me.”

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