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,

we tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

not sure it’s even possible to

but as this progresses or if my

out…

not sure-”

it or not?”

the pills?”

yet. But I

I won’t back

Okay. We’ll find a

sheet that’s draped over my

there are pillows propped around

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

a vase

me?” I point at the pretty

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

says. “I’ll run you

dinner up to your

like

haven’t taken a bath since I

my wounds. The ones that

treated by

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

overhearing

male made such an offer to

want a

Because I’ve never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

try and force her to conduct

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