Brian stops at a Walmart.

He parks the car. “I’d tell you to come in with me, but I think the backless hospital gown is going to get some odd looks.” He grins. “Maybe even get you arrested. Indecent exposure and all that.”

I laugh. “I wasn’t thinking about clothes when you wheeled me out of the ward. But, yes. I need some. I can pay you back.”

He shakes his head. “Don’t mention it.”

His

gaze

rakes me from head to toe, like he’s seeing beneath this thin cotton gown. I hold my breath.

“Keep the truck running,” he says. “And the doors locked. I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

lot and enter the store. In this part of the country, there aren’t many stores and this late at night, I’m grateful he

at least

from my family’s packlands. It’ll be close, but I don’t

minutes, I move to unbuckle the seatbelt to get more comfortable, and I feel something heavy beside me. It’s my phone, in the pocket of this hideous hospital gown. I take it out and see a slew

are from Adam. But some are from

name fills me with so

much

be

to divorce him? It

phone and it

like that. But I have no intention of answering.

feeling, knowing that

Why?

can he

side door

phone in

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