n the next d

slip past when Eleanor and

ne, staring o

y hand on my aching side

rowed. "You again? I to

e one who gave you my kidney, Ethan

for a second, a f

any is my fiancée, she gave me

than. Your mother, Britt

, "I love you, I

slowly. "You're si

eanor and Bri

cally. "Ethan, darling!

ike chips of flint. "H

e's been saying awful things, claimi

at me. "She's a disturbed

hem to me, his face

g me, upsetting my fiancée?

truth!" I cried out

, unsteady

who loves me, who s

ething I never

lapped

umbling back, my han

as colder t

me near me or Brittany again. If I see yo

any clung to Ethan's a

n my face, the pain in my heart fa

f the hospital, no b

ck to the penthouse E

still

r a moment of sanity,

ment was

losets, my books from the shelv

rittany's expensi

recognize hung

I had never

Ethan's side was rumpled, with a silk nightgown th

, brutal. I sank onto th

ed a few hours

n she saw me. H

oing here? This

five years," I s

d to the kitchen, poured

is left of yours and get out. He said

he man who o

" spilled her orange j

g clumsy at all. "Clean that up, will

the stain,

ght, was immense, but I w

l ached from

y knees and starte