how does it feel when you put any weight on it?”
As I lie stretched out on a cozy couch in the lounge, I stare at Adela’s full head of gray hair bent over my leg.
Although I’m still close to panic about the possibility of her discovering I’m an omega at any moment, I steady my breath as she runs a hand down my leg.
“It hurts too much. Every time I try it just feels like I’m going to fall.”
When she probes at a tender spot near my ankle, I suck in a sharp breath. To my relief, she doesn’t do it again.
Adela snags a fresh bandage from beside her before she gets to work re- bandaging my leg. “Well, it’s still a little swollen around the ankle, but I’m not feeling a fresh break.”
“And the others, Adela?” Mack speaks up from where he’s crouched on the floor beside her.
While I’d have lik
