I had to bite my tongue toward the end, but I managed to get by. I figured once I rocked the old lady’s world tonight, she might not feel the need to be quite so chatty. It’s not like I needed to be wined and dined first. I understood the arrangement, even if she was too ashamed to say it out loud.
So, at nine o’clock that night, when I padded out into the hallway and saw the light spilling from the crack of her partially open door, I took a deep breath and pressed my way inside. It was so cute, she didn’t even look up from her tablet, just pretended like she was still reading. But I did notice that she pulled the comforter back on the empty side of the bed.
Rent free living here I come, I thought as I shimmied out of my sleep shirt and laid my crutches on the floor. After I crawled in,
