Everyone Thought I Couldn’t Survive Without My Husband’s Money — I’d Quietly Built My Own Exit Years Before
We don’t.
And I am never going to make you wonder about it again.
Chapter 7 — I Made Sure I Got Her Out First
At Mercy Ridge Medical Center, the doctors began preparing Leo for surgery, and I sat beside him and held his hand and answered a great many questions that I barely heard through the roaring in my ears.
Julian arrived with Eleanor and Sienna only minutes before an orderly came to take Leo upstairs.
And I watched — Leo watched, too, his eyes open, taking it all in — as Eleanor hurried to my husband and gripped his arm.