Worth The Risk by Carly Marie

Author:Carly Marie [Marie, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Jeff

While we are noticing significant improvements district-wide, out of an abundance of caution, school will be closed today to allow additional time for staff and students to get over their various illnesses.

I read the screen on my phone three times before letting out a long sigh. Another day off school. If there were still that many absences on a district level, I didn’t want to think about what the clinic would be like again that day. Mark had been putting in between eleven and twelve hours a day for the last week two weeks. Between the flu, strep throat, and the normal viruses that ran rampant through the winter months, he hadn’t caught a break since school started back up.

Another text vibrated my phone; a quick glance told me it was from Mark.

Please tell me I did not see that text from the district.

This was the only way we’d communicated, aside from lunch breaks and a call every once in a while, since the beginning of the year. Well, aside from Tuesday and Wednesday when I’d ended up at the clinic with each of the kids. The first time was with Jenna, who was diagnosed with strep throat, and then with Seth, who was also diagnosed with, surprise, strep throat. Now that it was Friday they were both feeling better, and according to their discharge papers, good to go back to school, but school was still canceled… again.

Unfortunately, you did. Today’s Friday. After being closed since Tuesday and going into the weekend, hopefully everyone will get these random illnesses out of their system?

I could almost hear his groan.

My parents are taking the boys tonight. I seriously can’t wait to come home and sleep. This is almost as bad as working nights at the hospital. I’m starting to feel comatose.

I understood some of what he was dealing with. He’d even opened the clinic last weekend because people were so sick. At this rate, I was starting to worry he’d think town doc wasn’t going to be worth it and leave for one of the hospitals in the city. What if the compensation wasn’t enough to deal with the added hours? Or what if being away from home so often was too much? Would he go back to the city? Would he leave Fairview?

Let me know if you need anything this weekend.

Bubbles appeared immediately.

LOL! At this point, just let me know if you start getting a sore throat. That stuff is like the plague.

I groaned into my dark bedroom. The last thing I wanted was to get sick.

Don’t jinx me. Okay, we both have to get up, jobs await.

I made it to work, then made it until nearly noon without talking to Mark again. He’d been so busy this week I hadn’t wanted to bother him during work hours. If he showed up at the shop at lunch time, we enjoyed our time together. The last handful of nights, even texts after his kids had gone to bed hadn’t happened. He’d been falling asleep as soon as they were in bed.

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