Hotel Secrets

Chapter 3: Theo

I'm frying some eggs when Shai stumbles into the kitchen. "Hey babe, how'd you sleep?" I greeted her. She hesitates. "Fine." She snaps. Her facial expression indicates she's not fine. She sits down at the table. I dump the eggs into two plates and places one on the table in front of her. I go back to the cabinet and take out two forks and two knives. I sit down next to her. She picks at her food, and her face is now expressionless.

I start the conversation by saying, "Is anything wrong? Look I know we had a little 'incident' last night, but it was probably nothing." She looks up to me and says "what If that 'little incident' leads up to something bigger? Like a pregnancy? What if I'm pregnant? Theo, I'm not ready to be a mother!" I see tears forming in her eyes, then I cross over to her and pull her into my embrace. "Shh, it's gonna be okay. Even if you are pregnant, we'll figure it out. We're all gonna be okay." I whisper into her hair. She says "I know. I'm sorry." I kiss her forehead and say, "no need to apologize. I love you." She says it back.