Chapter 26 Had something happened?

My head was splitting.

I opened my eyes to the elaborate French plaster moldings on the ceiling, my brain feeling like someone had shoved a rusted saw into it.

The hangover hit me in waves of nausea.

Fragmented images flashed through my mind—absurd, surreal scenes.

Deafening electronic music, sh...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 The Price of a Heartbeat

2. Chapter 2 My own son wishes I were dead.

3. Chapter 3 I'll disappear on the day of the surgery.

4. Chapter 4 All for another woman

5. Chapter 5 She had gotten too greedy.

6. Chapter 6 I don't want you!

7. Chapter 7 Don't eat it then. Your choice.

8. Chapter 8 Maybe he knew and simply didn't care.

9. Chapter 9 Maybe he knew and simply didn't care.

10. Chapter 10 I was talking nonsense.

11. Chapter 11 He was still flesh of my flesh.

12. Chapter 12 You'd better remember your place.

13. Chapter 13 This would be the last time.

14. Chapter 14 Every sacrifice I'd made became a joke.

15. Chapter 15 From now on, I owed no one anything.

16. Chapter 16 Don't throw around words like divorce

17. Chapter 17 why the hell would you terrorize a four-year-old child?

18. Chapter 18 I really was a joke.

19. Chapter 18 I really was a joke.

20. Chapter 20 Don't talk to her!

21. Chapter 21 Vinetto