“Uh, heat and eat.I can’t really do much for a few days or weeks.”She stepped aside to let him in.“But as a doctor recently reminded me, at least I work with pointe shoes.”
He walked inside and frowned.“This place is empty.”
“I was never sure what to put in it, so I settled for three chairs.”
“No coffee table?”
“No.I hold my coffee, and then I go to work.There is more furniture in the kitchen.”
“Is there coffee?”
She shrugged.“Machine and pucks; go for it.”
He nodded.“Oh, Etienne is right behind me.”
“What, is there some kind of omega flag that shot out of my house?”
Tosh looked at her through the kitchen door.“Are you?”
“Yeah.Sort of.All the equipment but no manual.Wait.Why is Etienne coming?”
“Because his father called him and raked him over the coals.How did you get out of the hospital?”
She trailed into the kitchen.“I got in touch with billing and had them send a financial officer to my room.I proved I couldn’t pay for the omega room they had me in, and they downgraded me, which put me under the care of someone who just wanted to clear the bed.Dr.Aquilar was probably in surgery or something, so I was able to get out without any fuss.”
“What do you mean?You have full insurance coverage.”
“I have a previous condition that had been undisclosed, so that cancels a lot of omega-specific coverage.That shit is expensive.Just the room itself is seven thousand a day.”
He glanced at her.“Omegas are worth it.”
“Yes, but usually the reason they are in there has something to do with their alphas.They don’t have to foot the bill on their own.”
Tosh paused as the machine chugged along.“You have a point.”
“Yup.I like my savings, and I don’t ever want to spend it on fancy smoothies just because they won’t let me walk around.”
He waited and took the cup out as the machine hissed to a conclusion.
She was going to tell him where the cream and sugar were, but there was another knock at the door.
She walked to the door and opened it to see Etienne staring down at her.She looked up and cocked her head.“Yeah?What?”
“My father is pissed.”
“Why?”
“You are here instead of the hospital.”
“He forgets that not everybody is paid to be there.My insurance only covered the surgery and the basic recovery.No extra days.No fancy secure room.That arrangement would have cost me close to forty thousand dollars by the time I was out on his timeline.”
Etienne frowned.“You wouldn’t have had to pay it.The Omega Centre would have taken care of it.”
“They have sent me seven rejections confirming that there are no obvious signs of my being a useful omega.So, there wouldn’t be a chance of them footing the bill.”
He looked at her.“You knew that.”
“Duh.Want coffee?”
