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.

you a deal. I’ll start treatments, but I do it from

tell

His eyes widen.

sure it’s even possible to keep

okay now, but as this progresses

out…

not

do it or

the

Not regularly yet. But I will.

must sense that I won’t back

yeah. Okay. We’ll

I pick at the sheet that’s draped over

is elevated and there

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

I see a

I point at the pretty purple and pink flowers.

husband

AARON

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upstairs,” Jessica says. “I’ll run you a bath and

bring dinner up to your bedroom.”

like

a bath since I was six and I’ve already

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones

by

me because she’s up to her usual routine or if

feet away overhearing everything we say.

to her,

a divorce”

Because I’ve never bothered to curtail

force her to

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