After wrapping up the meeting, Everett tiptoed to the bedroom, careful not to wake Dorothy.
But she wasn't asleep. She was burning the midnight oil in front of the computer.
Brows furrowed, he quietly approached and glanced at the data charts on the screen, "Are they overloading you with work?"
Dorothy nearly jumped out of her skin, "When did you get here? I didn't even notice."
"Just now. You were too engrossed," Everett sat at the foot of the bed, "I was thinking about asking Kevin to cut you some slack."
"No need! I asked him to assign me these tasks," Dorothy continued her work as she spoke, "I've been taking a break for a while. He's probably been too busy to even sleep. Now that I've taken some of the workload, he can finally breathe."
"But if you take on all these tasks, you'll have to work overtime every day."
"Not for long. It’ll be just a week at most."
Dorothy marked each document, saved them one by one, and finally took a deep breath and shut down her computer, "Don't worry about me. I'm not a kid. I know my own limits."
Despite her reassurances, Everett's brows were still furrowed.
He knew that Dorothy was doing all that because she didn't want to let him down. But that wasn't his intention at all.
As Everett was pondering how to communicate that to Dorothy, she suddenly spoke up, "By the way, I can't work this Saturday. I plan to visit my mom and have a check-up."
Alarmed, Everett immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing serious. It’s just a routine check-up. I'm going to the hospital anyway, so I might as well get it done," Dorothy didn't dare admit that she was going because her period hadn't come!
Firstly, it was embarrassing and a sensitive topic. Secondly, they've always been careful. There was no way she could have been pregnant.
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