Xander's POV

"Okay okay, I'm sorry" I apologized as I forced the intensity of my laughter to reduce. "I'm just surprised that you also have dirty thoughts, that's all," I said before I began to eat my food, which had already lost most of it's heat at this point. A bit of silence enveloped the house, with the clinks of the forks against the ceramic plates being the only sounds ambient in the air. While I quietly slurped some spaghetti, I suddenly remembered what brought me here in the first place. I was a bit curious as to how she felt during her surrogacy period.

"Say Methis?" I said, breaking...