“We’re taking you both to the emergency room,” the lead paramedic said, and waved his partner over with the stretcher, and I felt the first loosening of the iron band around my chest, because that was a test Christopher could not talk his way out of.

Chapter 14 — The Blood Work

At the regional hospital, the first blood screening came back within the hour, and it confirmed what I already knew in my body: both Lucas and I had a heavy dose of a controlled sedative in our systems, the kind that no doctor had ever prescribed either of us.

That number on a lab report changed the shape of the whole night.

It meant I was no longer a stressed, confused woman making wild accusations.