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, but I do it from

tell no

His eyes widen.

possible to keep such a secret. I’m

but as this progresses

out…

not

it or

the

regularly yet.

won’t

Okay. We’ll find a way.”

I pick at the sheet that’s draped

is elevated and there

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

I see a vase

I point at the pretty purple

Your husband

AARON

*

run you a

up. I’ll bring dinner up to your

like that.

taken a bath since I was six

worst of my wounds. The ones that

by our pack physician.

around me because she’s up to

feet away overhearing everything we say.

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

want a divorce” decree

never bothered

to try and force her to

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