Beatrice...

"We almost had a child," Adrian said almost inaudibly. Leah's body was shaking violently, she looked at Adrian in disbelief, but deep inside her heart, she knew, Adrian was telling the truth.

"What happened?" whispered Leah still confused. Adrian got up from his seat, "Get dressed, I'll be waiting outside," said Adrian, who quite understood that Leah didn't feel comfortable with her naked body wrapped only by a blanket.

After Adrian came out, Leah rushed out of bed and put on clothes then she followed Adrian out. She looked around but Adrian wasn't anywhere. "I'm outside!" shouted Adrian from the courtyard. 

Leah walked briskly toward the yard and found Adrian preparing a canoe by the river for them to board. "Come on! We'll go around in a canoe!" Adria