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, but I do it from

we tell no

His eyes widen.

it’s even possible to keep such

as this progresses or if

out…

not

do it or not?”

taking the

yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back

yeah. Okay. We’ll find

pick at the sheet that’s draped

is elevated and there are pillows propped

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

see a vase of

point at the

Your husband

AARON

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

bring dinner up

She’d like that.

I haven’t taken a bath since

worst of my

by our

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

fifty feet away overhearing everything

to her, I’d rip his head

“I want a divorce” decree has been

I’ve never bothered

and force

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