“I am happy to have you back here after such a long maternity leave. You look good, Gabriela,” Steve said and offered her a cup of coffee.

She etched a forced smile, “Thank you, steve. So tell me how has life and journalism been going?”

Steve pulled back his smile. The life he could think of now was the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy of Aku and how he felt guilty each passing day for her crashed marriage.

“A lot has happened while you were away, Gabriela. It all happened at once and it got me devastated.”

“Our boss was in my house the other day,” she recalled.

“She did?” said...