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regretted the words. She wished she could take back her overreaction to his reprimanding. He was a teacher, she the student; she shouldn’t have spoken to him like that.
    “You’re twenty weeks?”
    “Nineteen actually,” she said meekly.
    “Does anyone know?”
    “Elijah, of course. And Dr. Govender.”
    “Your father?”
    “We’re telling him, and my mother-in-law, who is arriving from New Zealand in the next hour, tonight.”
    “You’ve been pregnant while doing your residence?”
    She nodded. She couldn’t read his face or the tone of his voice. Was she in trouble now for being pregnant as well?
    “I didn’t know.”
    “No one did…does. I didn’t want special treatment because of it, nor did I want anyone to think me unprepared to finish my residence.”
    “I highly doubt anyone finds you incompetent, Dr. Thompson-Bennet.”
    “I’m getting shi—crap for a doctor’s appointment that I squeezed in between surgeries. An appointment that took fifteen minutes! Other residents take longer than that in the bathroom!”
    Dr. Fulton stood, apparently annoyed. “I didn’t call another resident in here, I called you in.” He crossed his arms over his chest. “Had you been honest with me from the start and told me about your situation, I may have been a lot more understanding. There are protocols to follow when medical staff are pregnant. I assume Dr. Bennet knows this and was taking precautions for your fetus?”
    “The baby is doing fine.” Doctor or not, the little peanut growing inside of her had always been a baby… or a peanut. She thought about when Elijah had kicked her out of the room to run the navigational X-ray. “Dr. Bennet is very aware. So am I. We’re both careful.”
    He strode around the desk and slipped his white lab jacket on. “Good. However, since you are twenty weeks, I don’t think you’ll be able to keep this secret much longer. I’m happy for you and Dr. Bennet, but don’t let it get in the way of your work. You’re here to learn and right now it’s with me.” He headed toward the door.
    “It won’t.” She turned to follow him.
    “Good. I had high hopes for you.” He shook his head. “Shame it’s not going to happen now.” He sighed. “Come now, another surgery awaits.”
    Pardon? Charity hesitated before hurrying to catch up with him. Had he just hinted that he wasn’t going to take her on next year? She wasn’t supposed to know, so she shouldn’t be disappointed, right? Then why was she? She straightened. Screw it! She didn’t want to get into cardio anyway.
    Three more weeks under him and she would be moving on to the Emergency rotation. She tried to make herself feel better. She grinned behind Dr. Fulton’s back. It wouldn’t be her begging to have her back.
    Mandy and the other three interns on their rotation were waiting for them just outside a patient’s room who was about to go into surgery. Mandy mouthed, ‘ What happened?’ when Dr. Fulton had his back to her. Charity crossed her finger by her neck and pretended to make a dead face, and then she shrugged.
    The surgery took two hours and Dr. Fulton had another intern lead. He barely spoke to Charity, which only infuriated her more and more throughout the surgery. As Tyler, the other intern, was closing, she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket for the sixth or seventh time. She stood by one of the medical staff and ignored the look he sent her. For some reason, the vibration sounded loud, like a bee flying in the room.
    “Sorry,” she whispered using her hand to cover the phone in her pants and shifted her weight to her other leg. She also needed to pee. The entire stupid situation had her wondering why she had even decided to come back to do this. It wasn’t for the money. It wasn’t so she could see Elijah more. She had a decent job that she could do working from home. She was having a baby! Why did she think this was a good idea? Her jaw clenched tightly. She did not plan on dropping