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

tell no

His eyes widen.

even possible to keep such a secret. I’m

now, but as this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not sure-”

you do it

taking the

nod. Not regularly yet.

sense that I won’t back down because

We’ll find

sheet that’s draped over my legs. My

foot is elevated and there are

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

see a

those for me?” I point at the

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

“I’ll run you a bath and you

dinner up to your bedroom.”

like that.

a bath since I was six and I’ve already

my wounds. The

treated by our pack

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

feet away overhearing everything we say.

made such an offer to her, I’d rip his

her “I want a

a while. Because I’ve never bothered to curtail

to try and force her to conduct herself more

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