Karen caught Kenneth's gaze from across the room.

"Let me have a word with my brother."

"Alright."

After hanging up the call, before Karen could even speak, Kenneth beat her to it.

"Is Dorothy not up for hanging out?"

"She does, but it's a bit complicated right now! Everett's at her place."

Kenneth furrowed his brows instantly.

"Why is he bothering Dorothy again? Didn't they already break up?"

"According to Dorothy, the kids asked him to come over! And then Everett got sick, and just when Kevin was tied up and couldn't pick him up, so Dorothy couldn't make it."

"...Everett is sick?"

think... maybe Everett broke up out of the blue because he's got some terminal illness? And he wanted to spare Dorothy the trouble,

like a plot

had shown such deep love before, how could he just decide to leave Dorothy because of his

just came up, that would be understandable. But that had been dragging on for years, Everett should have been

the

Dorothy went to the hospital, right? What

tell me

you're thinking. If Everett really had some serious

If she's not free today, I won't

want Dorothy to have any bad impressions

he could help, great; if not, he didn't want to add

ending the call, Dorothy sighed in

genuinely didn't want

dislike or fear, but rather sooner and longer distanced herself, the faster

time on

Langston's laughter occasionally echoed from

that direction, feeling

take Everett

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