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 I do it from here.

tell

His eyes widen.

possible to keep

as this progresses or if my

out…

not sure-”

it or

taking the pills?”

regularly yet.

I won’t

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a

pick at the sheet that’s

foot is elevated and there

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

see a vase of

get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple and

Your husband

AARON

*

says. “I’ll run you a bath and

I’ll bring dinner up to your

She’d like that.

haven’t taken a bath since I

to heal the worst of my wounds. The

treated by

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

fifty feet away overhearing

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

a divorce” decree

I’ve never bothered to curtail

or to try and force her to conduct herself

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