Ella Bo locked the door and leaned against it. Her tears fell down endlessly.
She cried for about two minutes and wiped her eyes dry. 'Ella, to marry Samuel is already what you want. Why are you still crying?
It is already a huge step between you and him to be able to stay silently next to him and watch him, isn't it?
Why are you having bad feelings now? If Samuel didn't get drunk that night, would he have slept with you? Would he have married you?'
...
On thinking that, she walked to the dresser, took out some tissue and wiped her tears away.
She flicked open her cellphone, the screen still showed the news page with the picture she had been looking at the whole night.
Emma looked all joyful while holding hands with handsome Samuel. They walked into a hotel room.
The smile on Samuel's face... also looked so happy and joyful.
Has she become the third wheel?
Tears came up again and she quickly wiped it away. She closed the web page and tried not to see the picture again.
She felt a little bit tired and went to the big bed which she had been sleeping on by herself all this time. Ella fell asleep soon.
The room was silent for a few minutes.
The door was opened from the outside. The man who walked in looked at the sleeping beauty and took a light step.
He walked to his bed. His bed sheets were either black or gray.
But now, out of nowhere, it was replaced with pink color. The sheets were spread neatly across the bed and did not fit with the room decor at all.
It looked like the woman had been crying, because her eyelids were reddish. She was putting one hand on her bump.
The air conditioner was set to a low temperature, even he could sense the coldness. But the woman wore nothing but a piece of maternity dress.
He walked quietly to the bedside and spread the nicely folded pink summer sheet on her.
However, as soon as he turned around, she kicked the sheet away and clumsily changed her pose.
He had to put the sheet on her again. This time, Ella felt that someone was putting the sheet on her.
At the latter stage of her pregnancy, Ella only had light sleep. She opened her eyes to see what was going on. All she saw was a familiar back.
The door was closed in silence. Ella was now fully awake.
She just saw Samuel. So the sheet on her was put by him then?
Thinking of this possibility, Ella held tightly to the summer sheet and her face was lit up by happiness.
When Ella woke up again, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
She got out of the bed, tidied up her hair a little bit and walked out of the room.
At the second floor stairway.
Ella looked at the man on the sofa who was working with his computer. For a moment, she thought she had seen an illusion.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and wondered, was it really Samuel who was now on the sofa? So he didn't take off?
She held down her joy and walked slowly down along the staircase to the first floor.
Samuel noticed her the moment she looked at him on the second floor.
He focused on the documents of his computer, however he could still see the pregnant woman who walked into the kitchen from the corner of his eye.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Qi who had been looking after Melody Han were busy preparing dinner. Upon seeing Ella, Mrs. Qi called out, "Ella, you go and rest. We will soon be ready to serve dinner."
Usually Ella woke up early and would help around the kitchen, preparing vegetable. Clearly she was late today and the dinner was almost ready.
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