The tea wasn’t even that hot.
It left a faint amber stain across my husband’s designer jeans and a darker one across the young waitress’s face when she realized what she’d done.
“I—I’m so sorry, sir,” she stammered, clutching a towel to her chest. Her other hand instinctively moved to her stomach, round beneath her apron. She couldn’t have been more than twenty-five.
There were dark circles under her eyes, and the kind of exhaustion you don’t fake.
George shot up from his chair so abruptly it scraped across the tile.
“Are you blind?” he snapped. “Clumsy pregnant women don’t belong at work. Keep them away from normal people!”
The restaurant fell silent.
The girl froze.
Her lips parted, but no words came out. She looked humiliated, small, and very, very alone.
Something inside me cracked.
“George,” I said quietly, touching his arm. “It was an accident.”
He shook me off as if I were part of the inconvenience.
“I’m paying to eat, not to be bathed in tea.”
The manager rushed over, apologizing profusely, offering discounts, promising dry cleaning.
George accepted it all with cold superiority, milking the moment.
The waitress—her name tag read Evelyn—kept apologizing. I noticed her hands trembling.
When George stalked toward the restroom to inspect the damage, I stayed behind.
“Are you okay?” I asked her gently.
She nodded too fast. “Yes, ma’am.
I’m really sorry.”
“You don’t need to apologize anymore,” I said. I slipped a folded bill into her apron pocket before she could protest. “For the baby.”
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