Chapter 74

"Linda, didn't you agree to have dinner with me?" William asked.

Linda glanced at her phone screen-it was 2:30 pm.

"Mr. Wilson, do you eat dinner in the afternoon?"

"I'm worried you might get stuck in traffic."

"I won't. Just pick a restaurant," Linda replied.

While they were talking, Jimmy's IV finished. Without waiting for the nurse, he pulled out the needle

himself.

"Are you crazy?" Linda was at a loss for words.

Who would pull out their own IV?

"I'm not." Jimmy dismissed her concern.

have to do it ourselves,"

Linda said, pulling her

you a speedy recovery,"

back to his hotel and then returned to her own. As she lay down on the

Cheshire food, Weshim food, or

want home-cooked food, I can have the housekeeper prepare it and

specific you'd

past self. There was a time when

was insignificant to William. He could even skip her birthday

all, I never had a say, did 1?" William seemed to be holding his phone all this while.

Linda sent

you've always had the right

gestures of goodwill now mean

as the Linda who was madly in love with

was now scarred, and all her actions were meant for self-protection. She put down her phone, ignoring any further messages

the bed. Perhaps it was from the exhaustion from thinking, but she drifted off to sleep. When she woke up, Chloe was sitting in the living room. "Linda, you're awake?" Chloe asked without even looking up. She was working on

the kitchen to pour

is it now?" Linda

was winter and night fell quickly, it was hard to tell the

"6:45 pm.

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