After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 996

The couple rested together on the bed, Winona comfortably spooned inside his embrace.

However, she flinched when his hand ended up on her stomach, rubbing it gently. She turned to look at him and his handsome face and flushed cheeks. He didn’t seem to mind it, but she remembered a few things that made her sad.

When they were in the pool, she felt conscious when wearing a bathing suit. It felt like people were looking at her slightly bulging stomach.

Winona had a good body and was used to being admired for it. Having a bulging stomach was objectively not pretty in her eyes.

And with that… came insecurities.

What if this guy found her ugly? What if he got bored of the slow sex? What if he grew tired ofher emotional outbursts?

The statistics of men cheating on their wives while they were pregnant were concerningly high. Combined with her hormones, and the fact that a certain ex-girlfriend was like a fly buzzing around, Winona’s insecurities were not unfounded.

Speaking of exes Hana somehow managed to secure a job at the bank and was doing quite well there. Raj and Ramil seemed impressed with her and, in time, she could get promoted. This would mean she’d have more interactions with her husband.

Ansel did have a certain minimum for his girlfriends. For one, they had to be decent people and smart.

While the former seemed to be a little doubtful considering what she obviously wanted, perhaps she wasn’t like that before. People changed, after all, especially after going through so much in this place.

However, the latter couldn’t be faked. The fact that they dated meant that there was something about her that attracted Ansel, so Winona felt a little fear regardless of whether she showed it or not.

However, with the weird hormonal reactions in her body now, sometimes she just couldn’t control her tears.

When he felt something wet on his bare chest, Ansel immediately flinched. This wasn’t the first time it happened so he didn’t panic too much, but it didn’t mean he wasn’t heartbroken.

"H-Hey, what’s wrong?" he asked, slightly pushing himself up with an arm so he could look at her closely. He looked at her crying silently, though she couldn’t control her own body which was pitiful in and of itself.

He sighed. "I’m sorry," he said, and he looked quite sincere.

This made Winona stop and look at him weirdly. "What did you do?"

"I don’t know."

This just made Winona cry even more. She rolled around, not wanting to see his stupid face. "You idiot… wuuuuu…."

Ansel sighed and sat up, placing her to sit on her legs. "What did husband do so he can apologize properly."

Winona bit her lips, cheeks turning red, seriously pondering what to say. Was she supposed to say that she just felt jealous for no reason? That she didn’t like what her body was becoming? And that she was afraid he’d leave her?

Saying it out loud was… embarrassing.

"Nothing."

Ansel took a deep breath and held her tighter. "I thought we agreed to tell each other everything that bothered us," he said. "I’d assume it was something I said if you don’t tell me, and I’d feel horrible.

"I’d be depressed, go on a depressed eating spree, and then get fat. Would you hate me then?"

This made Winona frown and she turned to glare at him. "You dare think that way!"

"I don’t dare," Ansel admitted. "But if you keep making me guess, it won’t be good for my liver. What if I can’t get it up again?"