Eri Awaiting Labor Again (Family Line)

"They've never seen a man who truly cares for his family." Nakayama Takuya pushed the fruit plate a little closer to her. "Eat more. Build up your strength. Besides, gossip is gossip. Let them write whatever they want. At the start of the year, when I went to Nasdaq to ring the bell, didn't those Wall Street papers also write that I was young and impetuous, lacking steadiness? In the end, Silicon Valley Online's stock price tripled, and they immediately changed their tune, praising me for having a unique eye."

Eri was amused by his words.

"And you have the nerve to bring up Nasdaq. Frank complained to me afterward, saying you didn't even go onstage and dumped everything on him and Tom. The moment it was over, you rushed straight back to Japan."

"Wasn't that because I missed you?" Nakayama Takuya answered with perfect confidence. "You'd just found out you were forty days pregnant. All I could think about was how you were handling morning sickness alone in Tokyo, worried you wouldn't eat well or sleep well. How could I have been in the mood to go onstage and deal with those media people?"

Eri picked up a second piece of Apple.

"Has Kazuki been making trouble at home these past few days?"

"With Dad and Mom watching him, would he dare?" Nakayama Takuya shifted into a more comfortable position against the sofa back. "Dad indulges Kazuki in absolutely everything now. Even his most precious golf clubs were taken by Kazuki and swung around like bamboo swords."

At the mention of her father-in-law, Nakayama Hayao, Eri could not help laughing aloud.

That Sega president, who acted with thunderous decisiveness in the business world and made even Nintendo wary of him, became a completely different person in front of his