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.

I’ll start treatments, but I do

we tell no

His eyes widen.

sure it’s even possible to keep such a secret. I’m

as this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not sure-”

you do it or

taking the pills?”

yet. But

that I won’t back down because

We’ll find a

I pick at the sheet that’s draped

is elevated and there are pillows propped

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

a vase

point at the pretty purple and pink

husband

AARON

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says. “I’ll run you

dinner up to your

like that.

since I was six and I’ve

worst of my

been treated by our pack physician.

she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s

away overhearing everything we

to her, I’d rip his

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree has

while. Because I’ve never

or to try and force her

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