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.”

of the country, there aren’t many stores and

which gives at least two hours until my father’s funeral

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

me. It’s my phone, in the pocket of this hideous hospital gown.

Adam. But

his name fills me with so many

much

be

to my father-and all for what? Because I threatened to divorce him? It seems so petty now, especially if our

I’m holding the phone and it shocks me so much I fumble my

voicemail or anything like that. But I have no intention of answering. No matter how many times he

feeling, knowing that he’s trying

Why?

can he

driver’s side door

phone in my

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