strange blue text scrolled across my v

so they can control Rick' s access to the outside world. No lawyer

hloe is there, they' ll isolate her too. Cut her off from her

greedy relatives, the vulnerable victim, and t

ificial lamb. The words resonated with a terrifying tr

t wasn'

e who was negligent. They' ll say she was partying, that her "illness" made her unsta

ne, and publicly shamed

' s illness. The way they refused to give me a straight answer. "A liver pro

o be proof somewhere. My mother was a worrier. She kept documents.

ar ready and my mother was in the kitchen packi

bedroom. The air was thick with my mother' s perfume. I went strai

"Mortgage." I riffled through them, my heart hammering against my ribs. In the very bac

nside was a single

clinic, dated three weeks ago. The pati

it near the bottom, a string of medical terms I didn' t fully u

AIDS-related liver failure. High viral load. Extreme caution re

d communicable disease, and they were going to send me, their own daughter, to be his primary

fear replaced by a white-hot rage. I found them in th

y hand shaking so hard

ce raw and torn. "You were going to let me walk into that h