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.

clothes and move boxes and clean up the

there is another text. This one is also brief.

does that mean?

comes when my brother shows up at my

each carry a box.

1

K

4

.

2

first. “That blockhead beta

pretty sure he means

enough to lug around both of these. The guy built like

I feel compelled to

did,” Liam snaps at

question. They’re essentially violating

is

hand, they’re doing it for my

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 bottles of vitamins.

it?” Adam

me being locked away and starved for

your box?”

and the components

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

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

I say automatically.

what is it

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