Noticing my gaze, he pretended to cough and said, “We’ll go out for a walk every day from now on.”
I nodded as I knew no one could change his mind. “What other books have you bought?” I asked.
“Some of them introduced by Mario.” After brief words, he told me, “Put on your coat. It’s stopped raining!”
“Really?” I was a little reluctant to go out.
He nodded with a determined look, “I’ll wait for you here!”
It seemed that I couldn’t reject him again, so I went upstairs to find a jacket and went out with him.
The distance between the two villas in the landscape area is farther apart to leave enough green space for each villa and thus the area of the villa area becomes wider.
No sooner when I took his arm and walked for a while, I didn’t want to go anymore and stopped to look at him and said, “We’ve been walking a long time. Let’s go back home!”
“No! Less than ten minutes!” he said, a little sternly, “Fifty more minutes!”
The road was a little damp and the air was warm with the dim streetlights shadowed that it was particularly pleasant to look at.
I was just a bit lazy and didn’t want to walk.
But he urged me again so I followed him for several minutes.
There was nothing to talk about, and it was so quiet that only birds chirped.
As I walked with my head down, a question sprang up. “Dennis, what’s the baby’s name?”
The baby is due in a few months.
He looked down and thought about it and looked at me dully, “How about Skylar?”
My grandmother named me Clara from a poem since she thought I was cute when she adopted me, and she wanted me to grow up to be graceful and beautiful.
“Does Skylar means graceful and beautiful?”
He smiled lightly, “You can interpret it that way!”
After several maternity tests, I wasn’t sure if it was a boy or a girl.
“But the name is for a girl. What if he is a boy baby?” I asked.
“If it’s a boy, we’ll think about it when he’s born!”
I bristled, “Dennis, you value girls over boys!”
He wrapped his arm around my waist and smiled, “It’s a tradition in our family which can’t be changed easily.”
“What...”
After walking for a while, I couldn’t walk any further on the way back. I just squatted on the ground. “Dennis, go back by yourself! I can’t walk anymore.”
He looked at me, towering over me, a little helpless on his face. “It’s only been thirty minutes!”
I put the umbrella under my butts and told him, “I won’t walk for a few minutes either.”
My back was sore and aching as being pregnant was so suffocating.
He squatted beside me and said helplessly, “Come up here!”
‘Carry me?’
I froze and shook my head, “No, I can’t. it’ll press the baby!”
He touched his forehead, “Can I carry you back?”
I nodded and smiled at him, “Yes!”
However, I hesitated at the thought that the journey back was long and looked at him uncertainly, “Are you sure you can hold me that far?”
“Or stay here?”
I hastily got up. Hands reached around his neck and smiled, “Come on, let’s go home!”
He did pick me up and headed off in the direction of my home.
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