Chapter 45

LEAH

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, I’m grateful he thought to come

clock says 9:43 which gives at least two hours until my father’s funeral

over an hour from my family’s packlands. It’ll be close, but

something heavy beside me. It’s my phone, in the pocket of this hideous hospital gown. I take it out and see a

But some are from Aaron.

fills me with so many

much

he couldn’t be honest

for the lies and what he did to my father-and all for what? Because I threatened to divorce him? It seems so petty

calls again as I’m holding the phone and it shocks me so

that. But I have no intention of answering. No matter how many times

the feeling, knowing that

Why?

can he

side door

phone in

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