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.

start treatments, but I do it from

we tell

His eyes widen.

it’s even possible to keep such a secret.

but as this progresses or if my hair

out…

not

it or not?”

the

Not regularly yet. But I will.

sense that I won’t back down

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s draped

and there are pillows propped

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

a

get those for me?” I point

husband

AARON

*

says. “I’ll run you

bring dinner up to your bedroom.”

like that.

bath since I was six

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones that

been treated by

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

fifty feet away overhearing

made such an offer to

“I want a divorce”

a while. Because I’ve never bothered to curtail

and force

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