General He is really miserable, got divorced by his wife.

her breathing uneven from the intimacy they had just shared. The heat of his skin

back. His broad back and the hard lines of his muscles looked r

oset. His bare feet sank into the thick

thm. That rhythm shattered when Julian emerged wearing a chille

envelope onto the mattress. It landed n

read pooled in her stomach. Her fingers trembled s

black letters at the top of the first

, her eyes searching his sharp, handsome feature

emperature. He looked down at her as if she w

tt landed at JFK an hour ago. I need my s

a physical blow to the

f an invisible fist had reached into her chest and crushed it

o stay behind her eyes. Suddenly, her stomach violently

silk sheet aside, stumbled off the bed, her legs w

sink. She hunched over, gagging, her body

osted glass door. His brow

lian's voice cut through the heavy door, laced with br

stared at her pale, hollow reflection in the mirror. The water dripped from

ried her face, and wal

ch coat off a hanger. She slipped it over her shoulders,

rom the nightstand. She walked right pa

his large hand around her wrist

demanded, his voice dropping to a da

. "I am going to the hospital," she said. Her voice was hoarse

e empty, silent hallway, stepped into the privat

wind whipped through the revolving doors of the building. Eve

ue. She raised a hand and flagged down a passi

ospital, please," s

e neon lights of the city blurred past her. Her stomach cram

driver a crumpled twenty-dollar bill and pushed the door open. The b

-marriage insurance card. The nurse took one look at her pale face and the swe

in. She asked Evelyn a few questions about her cycle, t

he ultrasound wand glided over her flesh. A grainy

g the wand. She pointed a

said, her tone serious. She pointed to two dis

topped b

your physical exhaustion and extreme emotional distress a

, resting flat against her stomach. The tears she had fought so

or observation immediat

g gently into her own flesh, protecting t