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.

a deal. I’ll start treatments,

tell

His eyes widen.

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

progresses or if my

out…

not sure-”

do it

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But I

won’t back down because

Okay. We’ll

I pick at the sheet that’s draped

elevated and there are pillows propped

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

a vase of

for me?” I point at the pretty

husband did.”

AARON

*

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

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

like

a bath since I was six and I’ve already

worst of my

treated by

because she’s up to her

feet away overhearing everything

such an offer to her, I’d

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree has been coming

never bothered to curtail

try and force her to

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