When a Nervous Encounter Turns into a Heartfelt Connection in a Hotel Garden ... I watched her walk up the walk-way toward the Hotel...she seemed nervous so I decided to meet her half way. A man meeting a woman half way, how un-male-like I thought...and smiled. She didn't see me at first so I said hello load enough for her to hear. It startled her...much to our mutual amusement. "I'll try again", said: "Hello Candice". "Hello", she said, laughing at her nervousness. We talked for maybe ten minutes outside about various things...one of which was the lovely flower-garden set between the walkways at this Hotel. "Would you like to go inside", I ask her. "In a hurry are you"? She asked. "No, I just thought I'd ask", I said...Continuing I said---"would you prefer to sit outside for a bit and talk"? "Yes". She answered. We sat outside continuing out discussion about gardening. I could see something was up so I ask her. She told me her marriage was over and as of last week she' a single woman. [She did not look happy to be single to me] Looking away from me she continued; How her husband had been having an affair for years with his secretary. That everyone knew and had conspired against her...hurting her most was the other casual fuckng he had done behind her back with her friends---all of them. "As of this moment you are almost the only person I can trust...odd isn't it", she added. I laughed. Inappropriately as it turned out...Candice' face went pale...as if I'd just punched her in the stomach..., and what can only be described as disappointment made its appearance on her face. [Once again I error] I stopped laughing: "What's wrong"? "You're laughing at me", she replied. "No... …the next moment changed everything
