Chapter 16

I must pass out because when I wake up, I’m in the living room on the couch and I’m hooked up to an IV. There are machines beeping around me and it’s like the den has been turned into an infirmary.

“You flatlined,” Adam explains. “We didn’t have time to carry you up the twenty flights of stairs to your room.”

“It’s not that far,” I say automatically.

“It is when you’re not breathing.”

I sit up. I’m groggy and disoriented.

I hear voices coming from the kitchen. “Oh, come here, baby.

Let me clean you up.” It’s Jessica. She’s fawning over Aaron.

“You look terrible,” Adam tells me.

“It’s good to see you too.”

“We should move you to a hospital.”

I glance nervously at the kitchen then back at him. “Will they let me out if I get admitted?”

Adam bites his lip.

That’s what I thought.

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I don’t want to spend what time I have left in a hospital bed, alone. Trapped from the world.

deal. I’ll start treatments, but I

we tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

even possible to keep such a secret.

as this progresses or if

out…

not

do it

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But I

sense that I won’t back

yeah. Okay. We’ll find

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s draped over my

and there are

  1. On the table that normally has various remotes for the tv

a vase of lilacs.

you get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple

husband

AARON

*

you a bath and

up. I’ll bring dinner up to your bedroom.”

like

haven’t taken a bath since I was six and I’ve already

worst of my wounds.

by our pack

me because she’s up to her usual routine

fifty feet away overhearing everything we say.

an offer to her, I’d rip his

her “I want a divorce” decree has been coming

a while. Because I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

try and force her to

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