Chapter 51. Obedient Woman

“That looks nice,” he hissed, “but I think it’s just carpet burn and bruising.”

He carried on his inspection of her leg. When he got to her ankle it was by far the worst of her issues.

“This is badly sprained. I’ll get my bag and wrap it up for you. Is…” Benjamin stopped talking and seemed to swallow back the words. “…your husband due back soon?” He had to force the words out

“No, he’s not,” she replied calmly. Benjamin returned a nod with the same intensity.

“Just give me a few minutes.”

Benjamin came back with his bag and wrapped up her ankle and then placed an ice pack over it. “I’m going to listen to your heart rate, take your blood pressure then we’ll look over Jack and Michael?”

Pandora nodded, loving how he was so much like her in the way he called the babies first by the pet names she gave them and now by the names they would have after birth.

“Your blood pressure is a little, up,” he sighed and then moved back to her bump. “Boys you