From Neglected Wife to CEO’s Obsession novel Chapter 61

Julia’s cries hit me like a punch to the gut.

“Remy, please come! Cindy—Cindy’s throwing up and breaking out in red rashes, I can’t wake her up, no matter what I do! What am I supposed to do?”

My panic spiked. I started fighting against my restraints all over again, tears streaming down my face.

Cindy had to be having an allergic reaction. She’s always been fragile, allergic to just about everything since she was a baby.

She needed her meds, she needed the hospital, she needed help right now.

All I could think about was getting free, getting to her. Cindy was the kid I’d raised, the little girl I’d poured my heart into. The idea of her suffering was unbearable.

I wanted to scream at Remy, to make him see that Julia couldn’t be trusted. If she’d ever really cared about Cindy, she wouldn’t have disappeared when Cindy was just a newborn.

I wanted to tell him Julia was only using him, that he needed to wake up and see who she really was.

But Remy didn’t let me go. He just yanked the comforter over my head, wrapping me up tight until I could barely move, darkness closing in all around me.

His voice was sharp and angry. “How could this happen? What did you give her? Didn’t I tell you not to feed her random stuff?”

He shouted, and then I heard an engine roar to life outside.

Remy was gone.

I was left tied up, a towel shoved in my mouth, smothered by the comforter. My leg throbbed, the wound still bleeding somewhere beneath the sheets.

Minutes crawled by. The air inside the blanket got thinner and thinner, dizzying me. Sweat drenched my skin and soaked my hair. Everything tasted salty and bitter.

There was a ringing in my ears that wouldn’t stop.

A voice in my head whispered: You’re dying.

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