Chapter 80

Miss you.

It’s just those two words.

I stare at them for hours.

I draft a hundred different replies and delete them all. Because there is no right thing to say to the husband-who-isn’t-my-husband who-is-my-captor/enemy.

If he’s looking at his phone I’m sure he’ll see the three dots that pop up and disappear as I type and then click back to undo.

As night passes into morning, I sleep again.

It’s fitful. Filled with dreams that are more like nightmares, and memories I’ve bottled up since I was a kid.

I cry.

I curl up and try to comfort myself.

Because it’s going to take 48 hours for the results back from my lab tests.

Two days to learn if I’ll live or if I’m right back to counting down the time left with my terminal illness.

I want to live so badly.

It’s some ingrained survival instinct, sure, but when facing my own mortality, I don’t want to d ie.

boxes and clean up

there is another text. This one

that

shows up at my

carry a box.

1

K

4

.

2

blockhead beta just left these at the main gate.”

pretty sure he means James.

around both of these. The guy

them?” I feel compelled to ask.

course, we did,” Liam snaps

question. They’re essentially violating my

is

the other hand, they’re doing it

sshole thinks your own pack won’t feed you,” Liam mutters. Then he opens the box and pulls out packages or protein bars and giant jars of peanut butter. There are sealed packages of dried fruits and

it?” Adam

me being locked away and starved for a

in your box?”

it and the components inside clang

and pulls out knife after knife and then an assortment of weapons

your old lover wants to arm you against your own family.” Liam

not that,” I

is it then?”

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