After a long while, Jimmy finally loosened Ariah, and his hot body slowly cooled down.
Ariah knew that her words must have hurt him.
He even sucked in a breath when she said that.
Meanwhile, Jimmy pulled the quilt over her and apologized softly, "Sorry. I shouldn't have done that just now."
Dumbstruck, she didn't expect him to apologize.
Then, he held her curled-up body into his arms and kissed her on the head. "Sleep. I won't touch you anymore."
Ariah didn't quite believe him though, because she could still feel the changes in his body.
However, he said no more and embraced her still.
She froze for a while and relaxed a little upon seeing that he didn't continue. After a while, she fell asleep.
When Ariah opened her eyes the next day, Jimmy wasn't lying next to her anymore. She got up and wanted to go to the bathroom. Outside, she smelled food coming from the kitchen.
Sensing her coming out, Jimmy said, "Go wash up, and let's have breakfast."
Hearing his voice, she was a little surprised. Upon washing up, she went into the kitchen and saw Jimmy making breakfast with an apron tied around his waist.
"Why haven't you gone to work?"
It was already eight o'clock. Usually, he would be at work already by this time.
"I've adjusted my working time according to yours." Jimmy served the breakfast onto the table and leaned over to kiss her on the forehead. "Since you start work at nine o'clock, from now on, I'll start at nine too and I'll make us breakfast at eight."
Instantly, Ariah widened her eyes at the big breakfast. "Did you make all these?"
Taking a seat opposite her, he replied, "Yeah, I know how to cook."
"Then why have I never seen you cook before?"
"Well, I didn't get a chance to show off my cooking skills since there's you and the helper cooking at home."
Ariah nodded and ate her breakfast slowly. Recalling what happened last night, she thought that he would be angry today. However, it seemed like he wasn't bothered.
Upon finishing breakfast, she couldn't hold it back anymore and said to him while he was still tidying up the table, "Jimmy, you don't have to do this. Right now, I'm still not ready to marry you again."
All she wanted now was to give birth to the child. As for getting remarried, she would think about it later.
However, he just continued tidying up and said nothing, to which she grew a little nervous. Was he angry?
Later, when he came out of the kitchen, he took off his apron and finally said, "If you don't wanna get married again, then don't and I won't bring this up again."
Ariah was dumbstruck.
Oh no, he must be tired of her already!
He had been coaxing her for such a long time, and yet, she still acted indifferently toward him. So he must be out of patience now.
Thinking about that, she felt her heart throb.
Quickly, she bit her lips and looked away.
Just then, Jimmy's voice rang out again. "I've thought it through. It doesn't matter whether we have those legal papers or not. I'm pretty sure that we could live a good life even without those documents."
And then, he looked squarely at her and added, "Nevertheless, in the future, we might come across situations that need those documents. But don't worry. I'm sure there's a way to solve it."
Hearing that, she glared at him. Somehow, she couldn't follow his train of thoughts at all.
At night, getting off work, Ariah received a call from Sharon and she just happened to want to talk to her, so she called Sharon to come out to hang out.
This time when Sharon came out, there were bodyguards following her.
It seemed that Stanley was quite worried about Sharon since she was pregnant now.
When the girls were hanging out, Ariah got a call from Jimmy around 6.30 p.m. but she hung up the call.
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