Chapter 47

• "Bed rest doesn't mean 'work from bed,'" Alek said, eyeing the laptop, three tablets, and stacks of reports surrounding Emma like a paper fortress.
• "It absolutely does," Emma countered, not looking up from her screen. "Dr. Winters said physical rest, not brain death."
• Two weeks after discovering her pregnancy, Emma had experienced light spotting—nothing serious, according to her doctor, but enough to warrant precautionary bed rest. What was supposed to be a two-day restriction had stretched to two weeks as her blood pressure remained stubbornly elevated.