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.”

form cross the parking lot and enter the store. In this part of the country, there aren’t many stores and this late at night,

which gives at least

family’s packlands. It’ll be close, but I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t make

seatbelt to get more comfortable, and I feel something heavy beside me. It’s my phone, in the pocket of this hideous

Adam. But some are from

name fills me with

much

couldn’t be honest with

for what? Because I threatened to divorce him? It seems so

and it shocks me so much I fumble my

anything like that.

feeling, knowing that

Why?

can he possibly

side door

shove the phone in

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