Exactly one week after the encounter in the lounge, I sat in the clinic as the doctor stared at my X-rays, his jaw practically on the floor.
"I… I don't understand, Stephanie. The bone density is completely restored. The fracture lines are entirely gone. This is an absolute miracle."
"Yeah," I muttered, pulling my boot back over a perfectly healed leg. "A miracle."
The moment I stepped out of the hospital, I didn't hesitate. I pulled out my phone, dialed the scrawled numbers from the paper, and braced myself.
Honestly, I expected to be dragged into some mystical mountain cave to get the transaction over with the moment we met.
Instead, the Dragon god met me in front of a quaint, high-end cafe downtown, still wearing his sharp gray coat and dark sunglasses.
"What is going on?" I asked, looking around the bustling sidewalk as he held the door open for me. "Weren't we supposed to… get this over with?"
