Linda had booked Stephanie on Wayne Brady to promote Unscripted, it gave Stephanie a reason to be out there and it also gave Unscripted some mainstream media attention so all was good.
When Linda had rung Stephanie and told her about the appearance Stephanie had still displayed some reluctance to talking to Paul so Linda decided to make that step for her so she called Paul and let him know that Stephanie was on Wayne Brady on Thursday and he could do what he wanted with that information.
A couple of days had passed and it was now early Thursday morning and Paul was on a plane to LA, he had worked late the night before to enable him to have the weekend off so he could spend it with Stephanie and try and make it all up to her, if she would let him.
When he got to the studios where Wayne Brady was being filmed he got in quite easily as Linda had had him put down as being with Stephanie but security had been told not to mention to Stephanie that he was going to be there so when Stephanie had arrived she was none the wiser that he'd be there.
Stephanie was sat in her dressing room thinking about everything when there was a knock at the door; Stephanie called out, "come in."
Slowly and very unsurely Paul walked in, "Steph, it's me"
Her head shot up, "Paul, what are you doing here? How did you know I was going to be here?"
He scuffed his feet nervously, "your Mom told me you'd be here and I wanted to talk to you."
"You want to talk, so what would you happen to want to talk about?"
He walked closer to her and sat in front of her, "I want to say sorry for the weekend and I want to talk about where we go from here."
Stephanie looked at him incredulously, "where we go from here? It's kind of obvious to me where we go from here, you're either with me or you're not."
"So you're definitely keeping the baby?"
She shrugged, "I hadn't really given much thought to getting rid of it. I don't think I could get rid of it, it's a part of me now and I just can't do it."
He nodded, "well I'm glad you said that as I don't want you to get rid of it. I know I haven't been the most supportive of husbands this past week but it's all happened so quickly and just seemingly come out of nowhere that I just didn't know what to think or feel about it but I've talked to some people and I want this child for sure. Steph I love you and I hope you can forgive me for being a complete prat but I have been trying to call you since Monday so I'm not that bad really."
He gave Stephanie his trademark smirk and she just laughed, "you're incredible, you apologise then you turn it on me . . . men, I don't know what I'm going to do with them."
Paul laughed, "ah you see but you work with them every day so we can't be that bad."
Stephanie rolled her eyes and got up from her seat and placed herself in Paul's lap, "if you want me to forgive you just shut up and kiss me."
He carefully placed a soft kiss to her lips which quickly deepened.
Stephanie and Paul had finished kissing and were sat quietly enjoying each others company when Wayne Brady knocked on the door and came in. As Wayne came through the door with his coffee and started talking to Stephanie she smelt the coffee and ran for the adjoined bathroom leaving Wayne dumbfounded.
When she came out of the bathroom Wayne said, "wow, I never knew I had that much of an effect on women." He laughed making it clear he wasn't serious.
Stephanie smiled at him, "you wish, this sickness is more to do with your coffee than you so don't flatter yourself."
"Is everything okay Stephanie, are you sure you can go on?"
She smiled, "I'll be fine, I've learnt to avoid coffee first thing in the morning to avoid that bringing on the morning sickness but you weren't to know so don't worry."
"Morning sickness?"
Stephanie realised what she had said, "oops, promise me you won't tell a soul."
Wayne nodded, "my lips are sealed, I'll see you out there."
She nodded, "thanks."
Wayne walked out leaving the two of them alone again.
Everything had gone well for her interview on the show and she had just got backstage to be told by one of the assistants that Paul had popped out and would be back soon so just to wait for him so Stephanie went back to her dressing room and sat down.
Stephanie had only been sat down a minute when her cell phone rang, "Stephanie speaking."
"Stephie, how are you?"
She smiled, "Shane don't call me that and I'm fine thanks."
"Okay, I'm sorry Steph."
"Better. So what do you want Shane?"
Shane played offended, "I can't call my sister up for a chat and not want anything?"
She rolled her eyes, "shut up and just tell me will you."
"Fine, I called to see how you were doing and to see if you wanted to stay with me and Rissa for a couple of weeks?"
Stephanie was baffled, "Shane why would I want to stay with you and Rissa for a few weeks? I have my own house in Connecticut and my husband has been working in Vancouver and that should be over for now soon which means he'll be back with me at home so please enlighten me as to why I'd want to stay with you."
"I want you close so I can protect you."
She was more confused than ever, "protect me from what?"
"Well Paul doesn't want the child and he wants you to get rid of it and I just want to make sure that you won't be put in harms way."
Stephanie was stunned, "say what?"
"Paul wants you to lose the baby Steph and I'm scared as to what lengths he'll go to to get what he wants".