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.

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

treatments, but I do

we tell

His eyes widen.

to

okay now, but as this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not sure-”

you do it or not?”

the

regularly yet. But

won’t

We’ll find

pick at the sheet that’s draped over my legs.

elevated and there are

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

I see a vase of

point at the

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

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

bring dinner

like

I haven’t taken a bath since I was six

of my wounds.

by our pack physician.

sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine

overhearing everything we say.

made such an offer to her, I’d

a divorce” decree

never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

or to try and force her to conduct herself more

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