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,

tell no

His eyes widen.

it’s even possible to keep such a

this progresses or if my hair

out…

not

you do it or

the

nod. Not regularly yet. But

must sense that I won’t back down

We’ll find a

I pick at the sheet that’s

elevated and there are pillows

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

see a

for me?” I point

Your husband

AARON

*

“I’ll run you

bring dinner up to

She’d like that.

I haven’t taken a bath since I

heal the worst of my wounds. The ones

by our pack

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

overhearing

another male made such an offer to

a divorce” decree has been coming

I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

force her

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