Pregnant After Healing the Alpha Chapter 456

Chapter 456: Chapter 445: Haven't Seen Qiao Jing for a Full 24 Hours Chapter 456: Chapter 445: Haven't Seen Qiao Jing for a Full 24 Hours Qiao Jing furrowed her brows, not rashly opening the front door but peering through the peephole instead.

She saw a dark silhouette in her line of sight.

Qiao Jing narrowed her eyes slightly, recognizing who the person was.

Zhan Qipei.

But wasn't he supposed to be at work at this hour?

Why had he suddenly come back?

And there was also the sound of a woman's voice in the house?

Qiao Jing hesitated for a moment, and to avoid misunderstanding Zhan Qipei, she chose to press her ear against the door, trying to make out what the people inside were saying.

The voice of Zhan Yunyu rang out.

“Eh? Where's Qiao Jing?”

Zhan Qipei's tone seemed quite helpless.

“She's not home. Why didn't you stay at the hotel? Has your ankle healed so quickly?”

Zhan Yunyu answered:
“Didn't I tell you last night that I was coming over to see her today? But I didn't know you'd already gone to the office; otherwise, I wouldn't have called you.”

Zhan Qipei pursed his thin lips.

“She's not at home now, and I need to go to work. You should go back to the hotel.”

He originally did not want to come back, but the thought of being able to see Qiao Jing if he returned made him turn the car around without hesitation.

Since Qiao Jing wasn't home, he might as well go back to work.

Zhan Yunyu placed the gifts she had brought on the floor and sat down directly on the couch.

“No way, let me rest for a bit. I'm pregnant now, can't you show some concern? I came all this way, and you want to send me away because she's not here? That won't do. I'm also feeling a bit uncomfortable in my belly.”

Zhan Qipei gathered his long brows.

“You can find a time to visit Wonderful Hall, or wait for Qiao Jing to come back and have her take your pulse.”

After hearing this, Qiao Jing did not continue to eavesdrop.

As a result, she did not hear Zhan Yunyu's next words.

“My little nephew from childhood was so much cuter, even though he was also an iceberg face, he wasn't like this now.”

Qiao Jing stood up straight, lowered her eyelids, and turned to walk into the elevator.

All she did was send Pingping and Anan to the welfare institute, but by the time she got back, Zhan Qipei had already brought someone home.

Moreover, Zhan Qipei had rushed back from the company for this person.

Most importantly, this woman was pregnant.

She had no idea when Zhan Qipei had gotten together with this woman, perhaps even before her.

Then why was Zhan Qipei still with her?

She couldn't understand Zhan Qipei's actions. Now that he had brought someone home, why didn't he contact her to come back and clarify things face to face?

Qiao Jing's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, her mind growing more troubled the more she thought about it, and finally, she had no choice but to put these matters aside for the moment as she took a taxi to the research institute.

It was just the right time to finish the work she hadn't completed earlier and she had to go to Wonderful Hall in the afternoon for a consultation.

Maybe she would run into that woman.

Upon arriving at the research institute, Qiao Jing quickly immersed herself in her work, devoting her entire attention to it.

Her phone was always set to silent while working, with no one able to disturb her.

Zhan Nanqing had just returned from printing documents when she saw Qiao Jing.

“Qiao Jing? I thought you weren't coming today.”

Qiao Jing did not reply to Zhan Nanqing; her mood was not good at all, and she planned to use her work to calm herself down.

The fact that Zhan Qipei and that woman went out for meals and stayed in hotels had already made her uncomfortable.

But now, that woman was actually pregnant.

Her emotions became even more complex than before.

Could it be that she was seen by Zhan Qipei as someone who would cling to him and not let go?

Was that why he chose not to tell her?

Qiao Jing paused, stretching out a hand to her chest.

She could feel a faint ache in her heart, but she didn't know why.

Maybe it was because she had been deceived…

Seeing Qiao Jing silent, Zhan Nanqing was about to deal with her own work, but she became curious after noticing the other's strange behavior.

She knew Qiao Jing would immerse herself in work and no one could disturb her.

But why was Qiao Jing touching her chest?

Could it be… was Qiao Jing not feeling well?

The thought made Zhan Nanqing immensely worried. She tossed the materials she had been holding aside and quickly walked over to Qiao Jing.

“Qiao Jing? What's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?”

Qiao Jing snapped back to reality and glanced sideways at Zhan Nanqing, shaking her head.

“No.”

Probably the Zhan family didn't know about the matter, otherwise, considering Zhan Nanqing and Su Manhan's current attitude towards her, they wouldn't have kept it a secret on Zhan Qipei's behalf.

She didn't want to tell the Zhan family about it; she wanted to see how Zhan Qipei would handle it first.

If he continued to play ignorant with her, she wouldn't accept it.

Zhan Nanqing looked at Qiao Jing with skepticism.

“Really? Then what were you doing holding your chest just now?”

Qiao Jing hummed in response but didn't say anything more, instead turning her gaze back to the workbench.

“I need to work.”

Zhan Nanqing, worried about distracting Qiao Jing, quickly moved aside and began organizing the documents scattered on the table.

Suddenly, she felt her cell phone, which she had put in her pocket, vibrate several times.

Based on the principle that she should not slack off during work hours, she didn't want to look at her phone, but then the phone began to vibrate continuously, probably because someone was calling.

Zhan Nanqing frowned, took her phone out of her pocket, and wanted to see who was calling.

The caller…

Brother?

Why was her brother calling?

Zhan Nanqing sneaked a glance at Qiao Jing and, seeing that she wasn't paying any attention to her, quietly slipped into the bathroom.

She swore, she wasn't trying to slack off!

Her brother calling must mean there was an urgent matter, as he rarely initiated calls to her…

Right after Zhan Nanqing answered the phone, Zhan Qipei spoke first.

“Is Qiao Jing at the research institute?”

Zhan Nanqing could hear the urgency in Zhan Qipei's tone and glanced over at Qiao Jing with puzzlement.

“Yes, what's the matter?”

It was the first time her brother sounded so anxious on the phone; to the uninformed, it might seem like a major crisis had occurred.

Suddenly, there was no sound from Zhan Qipei's end.

Zhan Nanqing was even more puzzled and pressed urgently,
“What's going on, Brother? Don't just stop halfway!”

Zhan Qipei pursed his thin lips and slowly began to speak.

“She hasn't replied to my messages, and I haven't seen her for a whole day.”

Since he had left home yesterday morning, 24 hours had passed without him seeing Qiao Jing.

Now, she wasn't even replying to his messages, and he was nearly led to believe he had done something wrong.

But after seriously thinking for a long time, he hadn't angered Qiao Jing recently; they had just happened to miss each other due to conflicting schedules that day.

He had called Qiao Jing with no answer and learned from the teachers at the orphanage that Pingping and Anan had been sent back.

And if Qiao Jing hadn't returned home, she was likely still at the research institute, which is why he called Zhan Nanqing.

He was desperately longing to hear Qiao Jing's voice.

Zhan Nanqing was taken aback and let out a stunned “Ah”.

“What? You haven't seen Qiao Jing for a day? Aren't you two living together? How could you not see each other?”

Although one day might not seem long or short, for her brother, it probably felt like a century had passed.

Chapter end

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