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,

tell no one.”

His eyes widen.

even possible to keep such a secret.

now, but as this progresses or if my hair falls

out…

I’m not

you do it

the

yet. But

won’t back

Okay. We’ll find

I pick at the sheet that’s

and there

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

a vase

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

husband

AARON

*

upstairs,” Jessica says. “I’ll run you a bath and you can

dinner up to your

like

since I

heal the worst of my wounds. The

treated by our

up to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is awake

fifty feet away overhearing everything we say.

offer to her, I’d rip his head off.

want a divorce” decree has been coming

never bothered to curtail Jessica’s

and force her to conduct herself

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