Chapter 304: A Happy Event in the Family

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“Retch! Retch!” The sound of a woman vomiting echoed in the magnificently decorated corridor, making the place seem somewhat empty. Followin

“Retch! Retch!” The sound of a woman vomiting echoed in the magnificently decorated corridor, making the place seem somewhat empty. Following the sound, one could see precious paintings hanging on the walls on both sides, as well as very luxurious chandeliers and carpets.

As the center of German power, the decoration here could be described as luxurious. But now it seemed that although everything here was valuable, it was already slightly dated. Since the time of Hindenburg, when this place was still called the Presidential Palace, this building had not been renovated. In Hindenburg’s era, it was because there was no money. Now, it was because the Führer refused any form of waste.

In the Führer’s Residence, early in the morning, Mercedes was leaning against the tiled wall of the bathroom, her face pale as she dry-heaved. The faucet gushed with clear, warm water, washing away the liquid that was trickling from the corner of Mercedes’s mouth.

As a woman, she naturally knew what her current physical condition meant. It was just that she was not prepared for its arrival, nor was she sure how Akado would react after he found out.

And her career also made her uneasy. Mercedes was not a “little woman.” Most of the time, she was engrossed in the career that Akado had given her. She loved the management work of the White Orchid Group. She did not know if, with a child, all of this would be taken away from her. So panic, and the fear of the unknown, had put the strong woman Mercedes in a very bad mood these past few days.

She wiped the corner of her mouth, wiped her arm with a towel hanging on the wall, and closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down so she could return to the bedroom as soon as possible. But at this moment, a pair of warm arms embraced her tightly from behind.

The sudden embrace startled Mercedes. She turned her head sharply and saw Akado’s smiling face, but it still could not lessen her shock, because her first thought was whether Akado had discovered her vomiting just now.

So she forced herself to be calm, smiled, and stroked Akado’s slightly messy hair. “Why are you awake so early? Why don’t you sleep a little longer, my dear?”

“I hear you have a company meeting this afternoon?” Akado asked, holding Mercedes, his chin resting on the beautiful woman’s shoulder, enjoying the feeling as smooth as satin, and squinting his eyes.

It seems he didn’t hear me vomiting. Thinking of this, Mercedes finally and reluctantly put her mind at ease and also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It’s better to hide this for as long as possible. At least this way, everyone can calm down and think of the most correct solution.

Mercedes nodded, enjoying the feeling of Akado holding her from behind, and hummed, “Mm, that’s right. It’s about the production plan for the second quarter.”

“Give them a call and say you have something to do and can’t go,” Akado said softly with a smile, stroking Mercedes’s enchanting curves.

He still found out… Mercedes sighed, a pleading look in her eyes as she stared at Akado’s thin face, her lips pursed, silent for a long time. What is this? Is he asking me to hand over the White Orchid Group that I have worked so hard to build up? To hand over those achievements to others and then become the Führer’s wife, a housewife? This isn’t fair to me!

Mercedes’s beautiful, misty eyes stared at Akado, which made him a little flustered. A smile could overthrow a city, a second smile could overthrow a country—and what if she cried? Akado was now facing the ultimate challenge of a woman’s tears, tantrums, and threats.

Any man with a slightly beautiful wife would have experienced this thrilling enjoyment, which is that as soon as the wife sheds a tear, even if she is in the wrong, the situation will immediately change, the power dynamic will shift, and she will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. And what if the wife is so beautiful that she could overthrow a country? Then it’s an emotional atomic bomb, enough to topple everything and turn the world upside down.

So Akado completely lost his nerve. He had no choice but to hold Mercedes and persuade her. “My dear, I’m almost forty years old. Are you really going to lose our child over some small matter?”

“But…” Mercedes said, with tears in her eyes. “Akado, we still have time, don’t we? We can have many, many children! But this is not the best time. The White Orchid Group and Germany are both in a period of ascent. If we are tied down by a child at this time, we will be spat upon by history!”

Akado sighed and said, a little dejectedly, “They all say I am a gift from God. Do I really have to dedicate my entire self to Germany? I have already given the best time of my life to this Reich. Can’t I be selfish just once?”

“But what about me?” Mercedes shed tears. “Have you thought about my feelings? The business empire I worked so hard to build, I’ll have to hand it over to someone else. The personnel system I finally managed to control will be out of my control. I will lose everything and become a housewife who only knows how to do laundry and cook.”

She looked at Akado. “Let me think about it, okay? Let me make the decision myself, okay? If you think it’s okay, I don’t mind if you have children with Anna and Fanny first. Akado, don’t force me, okay?”

Akado was taken aback for a moment, then had the feeling of not knowing whether to laugh or cry. He pressed his finger on Mercedes’s sexy red lips, stopping her tearful complaint, and then held her in his arms, saying softly, “You’re about to be a mother, and you’re still so willful!”

He turned Mercedes around in his arms, so that his beautiful wife was facing him, and then continued, “As my legal wife, you will always be the woman I, Akado, love! Don’t always be so rash. You are now the First Lady of the Reich. Besides, who said that just because you are pregnant, you have to give up these things?”

“You… are you serious?” The main reason Mercedes did not want a child was because she loved the White Orchid Group, which had gradually grown under her management, so much. If there was a way for her to continue to stay in this group, then what reason did she have to refuse the birth of a child?

In fact, the main reason she had been struggling was because on the one hand, she loved the White Orchid Group, and on the other, she also deeply loved this man, Akado. She wanted to have children for this man. She wanted to have a happy family with this man. That was why she had been struggling until now, and that was why she had not taken matters into her own hands and gotten rid of this child.

“We can announce the news of your pregnancy. This way, we can dilute the gloom of war that hangs over the whole of Germany,” Akado said with a smile. “And then this child will be called another gift from God. He will be the most respected child in this Reich.”

Akado held Mercedes and envisioned the future for her. “And as for you, I will personally order those branch company managers and department directors to come to the Führer’s Residence to report to you. If you don’t believe me, I will have Heydrich help you investigate anyone you suspect. How about that?”

“Then what about when I give birth?” Mercedes asked, tears clinging to her eyelashes, which fluttered beautifully when she blinked.

“A short absence is also a kind of test. Let’s see if the business empire that you personally built can last for two months without your care,” Akado said with a smile. “If it is still everything as normal, then you can rest assured. These achievements are all yours, and you can go back to work at any time. If it can’t even operate normally for two months, then it proves your failure, and I will have to spank your bottom as punishment!”

“You villain! You villain! How can you be so bad!” Mercedes said, gently hitting his chest in his embrace, and then rested her head on his left side, listening to his heartbeat.

Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump. Akado’s heartbeat was so peaceful, which made Mercedes feel very secure. After a long while, she looked up at Akado, caressed his face, and said, “To be able to marry you is the happiness of my life.”

“I also feel very happy because I have you by my side…” Akado replied with a smile. “Come on, get dressed. Let’s go and see the new toy at the Führer’s Residence.”

Akado got dressed, straightened his collar, put the red armband on his arm, and looked down to see if his leather shoes were shiny. Although small matters like polishing shoes were taken care of by others, Akado, who had been used to being a poor slob in his past life, still had the habit of checking once over.

And then there was a long wait, a wait that made one anxious, a wait that made one despair, a wait that felt as long as several centuries—if you have ever waited for a woman to put on her makeup, then you will understand what “until the seas run dry and the rocks crumble” means.

It’s not that beautiful women don’t wear makeup. That kind of fresh-faced, invincible youth is only suitable for teenage lolitas. Mercedes’s makeup was not heavy, but she would meticulously master every detail, which also meant that her simple makeup took quite a long time. Of course, in terms of effect, she was definitely the kind of woman who could easily make herself shine with two hundred percent radiance.

When Mercedes appeared before the Führer’s guards of the 0th SS Division, none of the young soldiers’ eyes were without a fervent glow. It was estimated that if Mercedes were to stand on a high place and call out, these soldiers would all be willing to die for her beauty.

And what Akado had asked Mercedes to come and admire were the three new, enclosed-cockpit, Führer-dedicated transport helicopters that had been assigned to the Führer’s Residence. Akado had personally named this new piece of equipment the Crusader helicopter—the inspiration came from a cross-shaped propeller on this helicopter.

“These planes will be responsible for our safe extraction,” Akado said with a smile, pointing to the planes. “If an accident occurs and we must quickly leave the Führer’s Residence, then these helicopters will be responsible for transporting us to the barracks of the 0th SS Division on the outskirts of Berlin.”

He put his arm around Mercedes’s waist and said softly, “We have to live well. Live well for our child!”

Mercedes smiled, like a blooming rose.