Knight in Bloody Armor (Ghost Series Part 5)

Chapter 9

Faye

Finally it's time to see what's under that bulky cast of mine and face the truth. Will I be able to walk? Is my leg as hideous as it was three months ago after the surgery?

"Would you lie down on the bed for me, darling?" Caroline - she told me to call her by her first name - asks me as she helps me hobble to the bed before taking my crutches to put them away by the wall. "Let's see that leg of yours, huh?" She grins, taking some tool that looks like a pizza cutter but spins really fast like a saw. I guess it's to cut the cast open.

The whole time Caroline works on my cast, I keep my eyes shut tightly, terrified of what I'll find when I open them. "Looks great. Everything is healed nicely, just like I knew it would be." I catch Carole mutter amusedly, almost as if she'd known exactly what she'd see underneath the bulky plaster.

"What? It's good? I can walk?" I gasp in shock after seeing my leg completely fine. There's no scar, no evidence of what happened three months ago, nothing. It's just the way it used to be before the accident!

"It's perfectly fine. - Carole smiles at me - You can even run marathons if you want. Your leg is fully healed and will work perfectly well."

"But the doctors said... that I can end up with a permanent limp or in a wheelchair... How is it possible?"

"They must've made a wrong diagnosis." Caroline chuckles, but I catch her mutter something like 'not that it would matter when Lia's involved'.

"I'm sorry, what? What do you mean Mrs Knight is involved?" I ask suspiciously. Normally I wouldn't have said anything, but Caroline mentioning Mrs Knight is a bit weird and I can't help but feel that she knows something I don't.

"Oh, you heard that? Sorry. - Caroline laughs nervously - I'd love to tell you about this, but I can't, unfortunately. You'd have to ask Lia directly, honey."

I will. I definitely will. This is weird!

"Okay." I nod. This is beyond suspicious. I need to know what's going on.

I'm not surprised to see that I'll have to wear the stockings I got earlier. I can't possibly show my Yeti leg publicly! Thank god I thought about this beforehand. I would've died of embarrassment if Kaden saw this monstrosity. For some reason I don't want to look bad in front of him. I always end up putting more effort into my appearance when he's about to see me. Even with Gio, it's not that bad, but with Kaden? I want to look good. I want him to see me at my best. Maybe it's because he always compliments me and I want to live up to those compliments, I don't know.

"Oh, those look so cute! Where did you get them?" Carole gushes over my heeled boots, making me smile a little.

"Mrs Knight got them for me. - I tell her honestly - She often buys me things." I admit. When I first started living with the Knights, I was really hesitant about spending their money. Mrs Knight, seeing my reluctance, took it upon herself to watch me shop and make sure I spend all of my 'allowance'. Whenever I didn't spend 'enough', she'd buy me something, saying that the less I spend on myself, the more she will. This woman is a fantastic manipulator. She knew I wouldn't want to burden her so I'd spend as much as she wanted me to just to avoid troubling her with doing shopping for me.

"I should've known. This is exactly her style. But I've got to admit, you look so cute in those." Carole compliments, making me blush slightly. I haven't heard as many nice words in years as I have in the last month.

"She often gets me nice things. - I tell her with a grin, loving the care Mrs Knight shows me - It's actually a little overwhelming, but I like it. She's such a nice, caring person."