Our Secret Baby
As her eyes scan the recipe, she grows more distressed until suddenly she bursts into tears.
“No. This is awful,” she sobs against my chest. “My whole day is ruined.
No. My whole life.”
These are real waterworks, too, not a few drops but a whole gusher. I mop at her face, completely unmanned. “Sunshine, I’ll go. Just stop crying. We’ll figure something out. I’ll get liquid nitrogen. We’ll freeze it all up in a nano second. There’s some tech at a lab I bet. Nathan Brock works over at Cryogenics. He’ll know something.” I make a hundred dumb promises, but none of them work. Sunny’s completely distraught. In the end, I do the only thing I know how to do, and that is kiss her.
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