The Masked Stripper is my Wife.
He paused, letting the weight of his words settle.
“But I promise you this, we will give you every resource, every specialist, every chance. You are not alone in this.”
His words hit me harder than any anything ever could. My chest tightened, breath stalling halfway out of me.
“What do you mean no guarantee?” I said, my voice low but shaking. “I am just thirty, not eighty, I have a business to run. I have a life. I can’t just—” My throat closed on the rest. I couldn’t say be paralyzed. Saying it made it real.