As the instructor was telling them what to do with the birthing balls, she was thinking of another set of balls differently.
And when she started sweating and breathing harshly during the exercises they were asked to do with their partners, it certainly had nothing to do with squatting positions.
It was all because she had various other positions in mind that had nothing to do with how to easily push babies out.
When she was already picturing every other person in the room falling off the face of the earth, she knew they had to go.
She gave a close-to-incoherent excuse and practically dragged Maxwell out of there.
They had barely gotten inside before they began to tear each other's clothes off.
Thankfully, there was no fear of being discovered by anyone.
Reyona had given her staff a month-long paid leave for fear that she would probably do something inappropriate in front of them one day.
It wasn't that she had become so dangerous that every man in her vicinity turned her on. Nope, it just had to do with a certain man.
"It must be the baby. Baby and hormones." she thought to herself as she licked the spoon of her strawberry tart clean.
She suddenly realised that she had been touching her swollen breast even as she had those thoughts.
"Oh my," she murmured as she looked around in the private dining room where she was.
Though there was no one around to see her, she still couldn't shake the embarrassment at the kind of thought she was having in a public place.
He had brought her to the La Premiere restaurant because she had told him she would like them to eat out that night instead of staying in the way they had been doing for the past weeks.
The aim was so they could manage to keep their hands off themselves for a while.
At least that was what she thought, and it was a brilliant idea at the time.
But then the affluent La Premiere restaurant had been fully booked that night when they got there, and they had almost turned away in disappointment when the receptionist told them that someone had just cancelled one of their VIP dining room reservations.
In truth, Reyona would have preferred the main dining room where she could see others seeing them and reminded herself of the goal of coming out, but the private room was all they could get.
The meal there was wonderful. Just as always, conversation was very easy between them.
They talked about lighter things like his travels, how he started his first investment, her dealings with certain customers who did not think a woman could run a successful business, and they were always expecting her boss when she met them for the first time. They talked about many other things as they enjoyed their five-course meal.
Lighter things that were nothing like the intense conversations they had had over the weeks.
Reyona finally understood his reasons for keeping those things from her.
He even told her about the reason why Thomas had not been connected to the purchase of the mask in the sex scandal video.
It had been the handiwork of his stepsister.
He told her the reason he had made the mistake of trying to heal both of them before telling his NDLEA friend about Susan.
Just as he explained why he had not told her about it when he learned about them that morning before their marriage.
He had not been ashamed of telling her that he was scared of losing her.
That particular act and its confession meant so much more to Reyona in a way she couldn't explain.
Then he had told her about the disaster of the sunk ship.
Reyona was devastated by the news and how much more it had cost him.
She comforted him and told him how sorry she was that while he was dealing with that, he also had to deal with trying to find her.
Reyona had spoken to Celia earlier, and she had cried when Celia explained how things had been with him during those months she had been unreachable.
Then he totally disarmed her when he said "None of them mattered compared to losing you. I can lose everything and I will survive it all. I have come to realize that I can't survive losing you, Reyona."
It was at that moment that she realised it.
Those strong feelings she had finally admitted to herself she felt about him?
It was love.
An engulfing love that scared her with its enormity.
Not the kind she had ever felt before for any man.
Not the kind she had thought was possible for her battered heart to be capable of again.
She realised it and it scared her.
It scared her so much that she couldn't talk about it.
It scared her so much that she couldn't make the declaration. She could see its expectancy in his eyes whenever he whispered those words to her.
His "I love you" spiked ranges of emotion in her every time.
It was never the same.
It was always different.
Yet she couldn't bring herself to make that declaration.
She just gave him herself in the way she could at the moment.
She had expected him to argue or try to convince her otherwise when she told him she was not going back to Kayooma anytime soon.
She had told him that she wanted to stay in Sydney to build her new company to a certain level before she could fully leave it to Phils, who had told her he had no issue with moving permanently to Sydney.
Reyona had expected Maxwell to tell her he had to go back to Kayooma as soon as possible, but he had surprised her when he told her he could handle his companies from wherever he was in the world.
"What I can't do is stay away from you and our baby," he had said without any hesitation.
He just kept surprising her in unexpected ways and Reyona finally realised how prejudiced she had been about him from the start.
For now, she decided to take each day as it came and live it to the fullest with the man who had turned out to be the man of her dreams and the family they were about to build.
He had talked about them having a proper wedding ceremony but Reyona felt they should still hold on, but then she surprised him when she had her lawyer send the divorce papers she had signed to her.
She presented the papers to him that evening when she went to the place. Which he had gone to, when they agreed that was the way either of them was going to get any work done.
Without saying anything, Reyona presented the envelope to him.