DWP - dirty work: prompt

The office Christmas party is well underway, some are already half-drunk, when Delores arrives.

“Finally, Delores, you came. Solo, yet again. What’s your excuse this time for not bringing your husband with you?” Mike, the Managing Partner, asks.

“We couldn’t find a babysitter, the little one has bronchitis,” Delores replies.

Mike rolls his eyes and clucks his tongue. “I think there is no husband. I think the pictures in your office are fake.”

Delores swoops a glass of champagne from the tray of a waiter passing by. How can she explain to Mike and the rest of the office that she is actually embarrassed for Carlo to accompany her to office events. Although he owns a lucrative business, he mostly does all the dirty work. Sometimes she’s pretty sure he even smells like his work that is why she demands he takes a bath every night before coming to bed. She imagines her co-workers reading his business cards and snorting as they walk away, just like she’s seen it happen so many times:

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