The first symptom was the cold.I lay in the hospital bed, watching Ethan sleep, and felt ice spreading through my body. It started in my arm where Alice had injected the IV port, then crawled up to my shoulder, across my chest, down into my stomach.I tried pressing the call button. Still dead.I tried my phone. Gone. Alice must have taken it.I tried to stand. My legs wouldn't support my weight. I collapsed back onto the bed, gasping, tears streaming down my face."Help," I called out, but my voice came out weak and thin. "Someone help me."No one came.The hospital corridor outside my room was quiet. It was past midnight now, the dead hours when staff was minimal and patients slept. Alice had chosen her timing perfectly.My thoughts raced, tripping over each other. Lucas had planned this. My husband, the man I'd loved, the man I'd given everything to, had plotted my murder. How long had he been planning it? Since I got pregnant? Since we got married? Had any of it been real?Two ye
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