Baby Momma C27.2: Compromise

Here, with his family surrounding him, Ian relaxes and breathes a sigh of relief.

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“What’s wrong, love?” Chenyi asks Ian once they slipped under the covers and wrapped around each other.

Ian bit his lip. He didn’t really know what to say. He could only shrug his shoulders.

“…Do you want to talk about it?” Chenyi asks.

Did he? His husband nodded his head.

Cheny’s eyes showed contemplation as he observed his partner’s hesitant figure.

“Is it about me or Wenduo?” he asked again, to which Ian shook his head immediately.

Seeing the third time Ian had answered without words, Chenyi couldn’t help but be amused.

Well then, he decided, apparently they’re playing charades. At least he can still get some sort of idea of what’s up with Ian.

“Were the Bernards bothering you?” was answered with a shake of his head.

“Is it about work?” was answered with a small nod.

“Is it about my work?” was answered with an aggressive shake.

“Then, it’s about your work?” was confirmed with a nod.

“Is the business going badly?” was answered with a shake, which confused Chenyi.

“Is it the workers?” No. “Your office?” No. “The building?” No.

He was running out of ideas of how to ask what exactly it was about work that was bothering him when all of the things he mentioned were answered with a negative.

He could only ask in confusion, “Then what’s going on, love?”

“I…” Ian whispered, “I’m not getting used to working instead of staying at home and taking care of Wenduo and you.”

Chenyi hummed in consideration.

Before he could say anything else though, Ian interjected.

“It’s not that working has been bad! I’ve been having a great time at work! And it’s been an absolutely amazing experience! It’s just that—” Ian said, before his voice softened into a whisper, “That… Wenduo’s alone here again…”

“I get what you mean.” Chenyi said when Ian couldn’t say anything else and ran his hand through his hair

“I… I don’t want to stop working. But I keep thinking about how Wenduo has been alone at home before and how it’ll be just like that again.”

Chenyi nodded in understanding before he responded, “I feel the same way at times. But I think I know what you can do. You’ll just have to get a compromise.”

“Compromise?” Ian asked, pulling away from Chenyi’s embrace to look at him in question.

He nodded and explained, “You can work from home. Have your assistant send the paperwork and the details to you. You can just go there for important meetings and things like that.”

The more he explained, the more Ian perked up.

That would be perfect!

This author has something to say:

I’m so sorry this one was late :((

I really don’t know what happened—

Maybe I scheduled it wrong and I didn’t notice—

Anyways, we were shopping for Christmas stuff and just got back home when I noticed this one wasn’t published yet

So yuhh, hope you guys enjoyed and I’ll see you all next time for the epilogue!