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.

you a deal. I’ll start treatments, but I do it from

tell no

His eyes widen.

possible to keep such a

but as this progresses or if

out…

I’m not

it or not?”

taking the pills?”

regularly yet. But I

sense that I won’t back down because he

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

the sheet

foot is elevated and there are pillows

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

see a vase of

you get those for me?” I point at the pretty purple and pink flowers.

husband

AARON

*

Jessica says. “I’ll run you

bring dinner up to

like that.

a bath since I was six

my wounds. The ones that

treated by our pack physician.

she’s up to her usual routine or if

fifty feet away overhearing everything we

another male made such an offer to her,

her “I want a divorce” decree has been

Because I’ve never bothered to curtail

to try and force her to conduct herself

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