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.

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

we tell no

His eyes widen.

sure it’s even possible to keep such

progresses or if

out…

I’m not

do it or

the

yet. But I

must sense that I won’t back

Okay. We’ll find a

the sheet that’s draped over my legs.

foot is elevated and there are pillows propped

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

see a vase

for me?” I point at the pretty

husband did.”

AARON

*

run you a bath and

up. I’ll bring dinner up to

like that.

taken a bath since I was six and I’ve

my wounds. The ones that remain

been treated by our

sure if Jessica is fluttering around me because she’s up to her usual routine or if it’s because Leah is awake and

away overhearing

made such an offer to her, I’d rip his

maybe her “I want a divorce” decree has

I’ve never

and force her to

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