Ryder: A Wings of Diablo MC Novel, Rae Lake [e manga reader .txt] 📗

life depended on it and she wanted to lay with me. I couldn’t do anything but get frustrated.

I let out a deep sigh and closed my eyes, “Cherry I can’t do anything, I can’t…” I let the words drift off into the wind. I couldn’t even bring myself to say them.

“I don’t want that, I just want you to hold me.” She brought a gentle hand to my face her beautiful dark brown eyes gazing into mine. A soft begging expression on her features, “Can you just hold me, Ryan?”

My given name tumbling from her lips paired with the vulnerability she was showing chipped away at the anger I was holding onto. I wanted to say no, I knew I should say no but I couldn’t. “Fine, but if I get uncomfortable, I’m kicking you the hell out. Understand?” I asked as I laid back down.

“Yes, if it isn’t working, just let me know I and I will go back to the community room.” She untied her robe, she had only a long t-shirt like nightgown on, the small string straps the only things keeping it up. I groaned. She was too god damn sexy and my frustration at my body for not reacting how I wanted was starting to grow.

She pulled back the covers slightly and crawled into the bed, it was so strange to not feel her legs settled between mine like they always did. She moved my arm so that she could lay her head on my chest and I pulled her in closer to me. Her hand rested on my chest and she absentmindedly played with the light hair she found there. It was so normal.

“This ok?” She asked after a couple of seconds.

“Yeah, it’s cool.”

I didn’t know if it was the medication that I took or Cherry but all of a sudden, I’d begun to feel more at ease and the pain began to recede.

I yawned and tugged her in closer to me, cuddling more into her soft skin.

“Go to sleep, I won’t leave until you tell me to.” She whispered on the very cusp of her own consciousness.

It was the best sleep I’ve had in weeks.

Chapter 9

I woke the next morning to find that Cherry had left sometime during the night. One of the best things about Cherry was she always knew when it was time to go. The last thing I wanted to do was entertain someone as I tried to position myself on the toilet. It was a long process and one that I didn’t really want any company for.

There was a knock on the door and Medi made his way into my room. He was there to help me with my daily activities. I hated him but I needed him. He washed my body up to the places I could reach and after he washed me, he helped me put on some clothes and then he would leave for the day. I had yet to allow him to work me out like he was supposed to be doing but the pain I experienced last night was enough for me to stop him on his way out.

“Medi, you got a minute?”

He turned around and waited for me to speak.

“Last night, I had some really fucked up pain in my legs. Is that normal?”

He cocked his head to the side and rubbed his chin like he was deep in thought. He raised his hand so that I could see that he was about to sign something. First, he made a knife stabbing motion then he made a pulsing motion with his hand. For someone who didn’t talk he did a good job of getting what he wanted to say across.

“It was more a feeling of pins and needles like my muscles were asleep. But it was so fucking intense, I don’t think I have ever felt anything as crazy as that. At least not while I was fucking conscious.”

Medi nodded his head and put a finger up, he walked out and was back in a minute with Mikki. He motioned for me to tell her what I had just told him.

“Something going on Ryder?” Mikki asked from the door. She wasn’t going to spend more time with me than she had to.

“Uh, yeah I was telling Medi that I had some bad pain yesterday in my legs.”

Medi tapped her and made an explosion like movement with his hands and then a movement that looked like he was flexing.

“Yeah, maybe,” Mikki replied to him.

“It’s no big deal, I was just trying to figure out if it was normal. I’m fine.”

“It was pins and needles?”

I let out a sigh, I was already tired of explaining myself, “Yes, it was pins and needles but I’m fine now. Don’t worry about it.” I took the brakes off my wheelchair and tried to roll past them.

“Wait, Ryder, I was just trying to make sure that I had all the information.”

I backed up and waited for her to tell me whatever she was thinking.

“Your accident and the trauma you experienced is the only reason you can’t walk. It takes time for your body to heal. Time also allows your nerves to start to healing, for some people that means they can learn to walk again.”

I rolled my eyes, I wasn’t a subscriber to blind hope until I saw some evidence that said I was getting my legs back I wasn’t going to believe that. “Tell me Mikayla, is that the norm? Have you seen many people with injuries as bad as mine recover enough that they would be able to walk again?” I waited for her answer even if I already knew what It would be.

She shook her head, “I can’t say that I have, more commonly the nerves are just shooting off random pain signals but the body can’t do anything to relieve it. Unfortunately, that’s also a possibility for what you were feeling last night.”

“So you’re saying this is probably going to happen