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.

2/5

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

start treatments, but I do it

tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

possible to keep such a secret.

progresses

out…

I’m not sure-”

you do it or

the

nod. Not regularly yet.

won’t

Okay. We’ll

at the sheet that’s draped over my

elevated and there are pillows

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

electronics, I see a

I point

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

Jessica says. “I’ll run you a bath

dinner up

She’d like that.

I haven’t taken a bath since

the worst of my wounds. The ones

by

fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or

overhearing

offer to her, I’d rip his

her “I want a divorce” decree has been

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

and force

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