Chapter 56

"Good." He said. "One more." He spooned more soup into her mouth and then patted her lips with a cloth napkin.

She frowned at him. "That wasn‘t just a little weird."

He smiled. "That medicine is going to make you feel like crap if you don‘t have something on your stomach to act as a buffer."

He spooned more soup into her mouth. She almost pursed her lips together and turned her head away but at the last minute she decided that she liked the soup too much, so she opened her mouth for it.

She noticed that his knuckles were scratched and rubbed raw. He also had gashes on the pads of his palms. He was limping pretty bad too, but he didn‘t complain.

She reached out and took his hand and then she reached for the other. It looked like he had try boxing with a grizzly bear. "You got something for this?"

"It‘s alright." He said.

"Are you planning to take care of us?" Stella asked.

"That‘s my plan. Yes."