Chapter 54: Only yours

Ivy gently applies the herbs to my leg, watching me closely for any indication that it may hurt. But the combined touch of her skin and the numbing effect of the salve keep me from flinching away. She then grabs a wrap and eases my leg up as she reaches around my thick thigh and tightly wraps it around me.

“It’s looking better than it did when we first got you here.” Caleb muses and I scoff.

“This is better?” I ask.

“So much better.” Ivy agrees with Caleb. “The herbs draw out the wolfsbane, which will allow it to heal. You will have a scare. There is no way around that, but it will heal.”

“Will I be able to walk?”

My eyes flit between the two of them, waiting for one of them to not only answer me but to look at me. I growl rumbles low in my chest when a moment passes in silence and Ivy sighs heavily, stopping what she is doing.

“We think so,” she says.

“You think? But you don’t actually know?”

I look up at Caleb, who frowns down at my leg and scrubs a hand over his face.

“If the bo