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.

I’ll start treatments, but I do it

we tell

His eyes widen.

even possible to keep

this progresses or if my

out…

I’m not

you do it

taking the

yet. But I will.

must sense that I won’t back down

yeah. Okay. We’ll find a way.”

pick at the sheet that’s draped over

is elevated and there

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

electronics, I see a vase of

me?” I point at the

husband did.”

AARON

*

run you a bath and you can

I’ll bring dinner

like

since I was six and I’ve

worst of my

been treated by our pack

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

away overhearing

offer to her, I’d rip

“I want a divorce” decree has

while. Because I’ve never bothered to

and force

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