d harsh in the sudden silence. "Y

me. He rushed to Jessica's side, h

done so much for me, taken such selfless care of me. Don't listen to her." He turned his full anger o

last shred of m

"She's your whore, David! You're having an affair, living here in comfort whil

ing her head as if str

face a mask of conce

e a brave whisper. "No, David. I don't w

asterful p

the adjoining kitchen for a moment. I could hear snip

xpression grim, Jessica

cal bag. My eyes, sharpened by desperatio

vial. A small, glass vial with a distinc

tched. I kne

ck home had said was Leo's only real chance. The one that

here. In Da

d desperate, su

ed for the bag. "Th

ike genuine alarm, snatched the bag away, her voice

around the daycare on base, and dependents were iss

ith anguish. "Leo is your husband's *actual* dependent,

. You're being hysterical. I'll put in a request for another dose t

esn't have a week! He barely

hannels" meant it would never arrive in time, if a

to secure the drug, not for his dying so

t know I possessed propelled me forward. I t

it t

" Jessica shrieked, her mask

o my arms like vices. "Stop it, Sarah! Yo

ne, trying to hit David's legs. "Let her g

, not at the injustice, but at me, at the scene I was c

d. He ripped the vial from Jessica's grasp. For a hea

roar, he smashed it vi

ious liquid splashing useless

"Are you happy now, you psycho? Get out

e sight of Leo's only hope destroy