Walker sighed and lowered himself into the uncomfortable wooden chair that he’d pilfered from Willow and Lilah’s dining room set. He’d also stolen a book from Lilah’s shelves as he passed, figuring he was in for a long night without anything to occupy his mind or his hands. In his haste, however, he hadn’t bothered to look at the book he’d taken.
He regretted that now.
It was some sort of medical text that he could barely make sense of. As far as he could tell, it was talking about heart bypasses? He couldn’t be totally sure; if anything, he was going off of the confusing and graphic anatomical sketches.
Given that he wasn’t about to go back out there and exchange it, he was stuck with it. Walker had hoped to read it out loud, just in case the selkie could hear it somewhere in her dr
