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.

a deal. I’ll start treatments,

we tell

His eyes widen.

not sure it’s even possible to

this progresses or if my hair

out…

I’m not

you do it or not?”

the

nod. Not regularly yet. But I will.

I won’t

We’ll find a way.”

you.” I pick at the sheet that’s draped over

there

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

I see a vase of

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

Your husband did.”

AARON

*

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

dinner

like

I haven’t taken a bath since I was six and I’ve

worst of my wounds. The

treated by our pack

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

away overhearing everything we

another male made such an offer to her, I’d

a divorce” decree

never bothered to curtail

and force

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