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.

deal. I’ll start treatments, but

we tell

His eyes widen.

possible to keep such a secret.

as this progresses or

out…

I’m not sure-”

do it

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But

won’t back down because

yeah. Okay. We’ll find

the sheet that’s draped over my legs.

there are pillows propped

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

see a vase of lilacs.

me?” I point at the pretty purple and

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

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

I’ll bring dinner up to your

She’d like that.

since I was six

the worst of my wounds. The ones that

treated by our

not sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is awake

overhearing everything we

to her, I’d

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

Because I’ve never

force her to conduct herself

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