By the time they got back to the cottage Sheridan had calmed herself down again. "Oh Luis. I'm so sorry." She said as they sat down on the bed together.

"You just cuddle into me ands tell me what's wrong baby." Luis held her close.

"Luis, every time I'm in your arms I feel safe. I feel so protected. When I'm in your arms nothing can be wrong."

"And when you hold onto me I love you even more. Have I told you how much I love you lately?"

"Can anything get between our love? Will you top loving me if I tell you something you won't like to hear? Something terrible that I could change but it would break me. Oh Luis, I'm being so selfish." Sheridan was fighting hard to contain her sobs. Lying in Luis' arms she felt she could just let go and cry. But she can't. She mustn't. If she did she'd have to tell him why, and she couldn't do that. Not yet.

"How could you possibly be selfish? Sheridan, it's killing me to see you so upset." Sheridan looked up and saw the tears forming in Luis' eyes. `He as is such a caring man.' she thought.

Luis waited, but no reply came. "Sheridan, you could tell me the worst thing in the world and I wouldn't stop loving you. I will love you forever and ever and ever. Even when I'm stone cold. If you ripped out my heard and looked inside you'd see all it was full of was love for you. Nothing can ever separate us."

Sheridan held him closer and began to feel sleepy.

"Huh. You see the look on Ethan's face when Theresa told him she might have been pregnant?!" Luis blurted out, trying to make Sheridan laugh. "He didn't know what to think. But I'm disappointed in Theresa. Having a child out of wedlock is the last thing she should have done. At least it was a false alarm."

"Yeah. Great." Were the only two words Sheridan could say. She knew now what she had to do. She couldn't let Luis know what she was hiding. And her heart weighed heavy at the choice she knew she had to make.

"But don't you worry about my complaints. You just lie here and go to sleep. We don't have to talk if you don't want to." Luis said.

"Um, I'm going to go and have a shower." Sheridan got up.

"Now?" Luis asked.

"Yeah." Sheridan kissed Luis hard on the lips, trying to show him that nothing was wrong. Apparently it worked. Hew stopped asking her questions and let her leave. Sheridan held her head high as she walked out of the room and into the bathroom. She didn't move a muscle on her face, as she stood under the running water, completely oblivious that it was stone cold. She let the water wash over her face and just stood there her mind ticking over and over. Her emotions had completely turned off and all her senses were numbed. She felt as if her life was over. All it took to undo this mess was two words. `I'm pregnant.' Yet those two words could mean destruction for Luis and Sheridan. Luis had said that nothing could bring them apart. But he was just as adamant about having a child only when a couple are married. Suddenly the day's shopping and stress hit her and she crouched down and sat on the shower floor. Her eyes were heavy with fatigue and she let her headrest against the
tiled wall. In a matter of seconds she fell into a deep, senseless sleep.