"No!" Emily said awkwardly.
She pulled out a chair and sat down. Picking out a slice of roast pork from the lunch box. When she touched the plastic bag beside her, she found that there seemed to be something else in it.
When she saw it carefully, she noticed those were two books.
Not medical books, instead, pregnant women and infants were on the cover of the books. Her heart did a complete somersault when she caught a glimpse of a cute baby holding a feeding bottle from the corner of her eye.
She swallowed the meat in her mouth with her head down. Her eyelashes cast shadows beneath her eyelids.
Twenty minutes later, after she put down the fork, Simon packed up the snacks on the table. Although he bought mountains of snacks and she only ate a slice of pork, he was not unhappy. Instead, he seemed to be in a good mood with a faint smile on his face.
Emily took her eyes off the books to gaze at his handsome face. Seeing that he had no intention of leaving after such a long time, she couldn't help but frown and ask, "It's already ten o'clock. Simon, why aren't you leaving?"
Outside the window, the night grew late. Many of the windows in the opposite building had already gone dark.
"I don't want to go." Simon replied.
"What do you mean?" Emily was stunned and asked in surprise, "Are you going to stay here tonight?"
Obviously, Simon intended to do so. He took off the watch on his wrist and put it on the table. He said lazily, "You are pregnant now. I can't leave you alone!"
"..." Emily glared at him.
Although he said that he would transfer the apartment as compensation to her after the divorce, she chose to return the house to him when she decided to go abroad with Wendy. So now, she had no reason to turn him out of the door. What's more, he was determined to stay...
Simon acted as if he didn't hear her words, and then he knocked on the dial with his index finger. "You're right. It's ten o'clock. A pregnant woman should go to bed early, otherwise, it's not good for the child!"
Emily opened her mouth and wanted to retort, but then she thought of something and held back her words.
She glanced at him with annoyance, turned around, and went to the bedroom.
As the night grew darker, only a few windows in the opposite building were lit. In the darkness, Emily turned over, but she did not fall asleep. Although she was drowsy, she still managed to stay awake.
She lay propped against the pillows while strained her ears to catch any tinny sound.
Across the door, the living room outside was quiet. Emily lifted the quilt, and stood up cautiously. She pulled on her slippers and peeked out of the bedroom sneakily.
After looking around for a moment, she got out of the room.
As if she was a thief, Emily lowered her body and moved towards the opposite bedroom.
She occupied the master room. When Wendy returned and moved in from the hotel to live with her, she changed the study on the opposite side to another bedroom. Simon was sleeping inside at this time.
Emily listened for a long time against the door. After she made sure the man was quietly, regularly breathing inside, she opened the door bit by bit holding her breath.
With the faint moonlight, she could see Simon, who was lying flat on the bed. Even in the dim light, his face was alarmingly handsome. Though his beautiful eyes were closed, she was dazzled by his prominent nose and strongly defined chin.
Emily let out a sigh of relief quietly.
She didn't want to waste any more time and started to search around the room in the darkness. In the beam of her flashlight on the phone, she went to the chair by the window, picked up the shirt and long pants one by one, trying to find her passport and ID card.
Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find anything she wanted.
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