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“You were drunk.”
“No, I was not.”
“Oh.”
“Were you too inebriated to know what you were doing?” he asked. “Tell me the truth.”
“No. I told you.”
“Then we will both accept the consequences of choices we knowingly made.”
She nodded.
“Together.”
“For now.”
“As long as your pregnancy is a possibility.”
She tried to read his eyes, but could see nothing beyond sincerity and determination that might give her stubbornness a run for its money. “Okay.”
He smiled. “Good. That is a beginning.”
Yusuf cleared his throat. “We need to consider procurement of the morning-after pill.”
Sayed turned so he stood between Liyah and the bodyguard, his back to her. “What are you talking about?”
“Emergency birth control.”
“No.”
“It’s not—”
“An option,” Sayed insisted, interrupting his bodyguard.
“It might be,” Liyah offered, remembering an article she’d read about the different types of after-the-fact birth control. “If it’s the one that doesn’t get rid of pregnancy, only prevent it.”
“How is it possible you know this and yet are so uncomfortable talking about sex?” Sayed asked, turning to face her again, his expression searching.
She rolled her eyes. “I read.” One of her secret vices was a long-standing subscription to a popular women’s magazine. “I’m inexperienced, not ignorant.”
“Tell me about this pill.”
“Well, there’s more than one, but I think…hope…the one Yusuf is talking about is safe. You know, if I’m pregnant already, it won’t hurt the baby. Or me.” She wanted to keep denying the possibility she was pregnant.
And truly, she couldn’t believe she was, but she wasn’t an ostrich. She wouldn’t be burying her head in the sand in the face of a potential reality.
No matter how much she might want to.
Sayed nodded acknowledgment. “It cannot be one hundred percent effective.”
“Not absolutely, no.”
“So, our immediate plans must be the same regardless.”
“You are right, of course,” Yusuf answered. “I will begin making arrangements.”
“I’ll have to talk to the local clinic about getting the pill.”
