Weak in the Knees Ch. 05 - Sex Stories

Weak in the Knees Ch. 05

... treatment plan.

The doctor prescribed a longer round of steroids that Zach would start at home, and he told him to up his water intake before he left the two of them in the room alone while he worked on Zach's discharge.

Zach let out a sigh and leaned back in the bed while he shifted his eyes over to Diego, taking in the neutral expression and tension in his body. "Are you okay?"

Diego shook his head, the expression on his face making it clear that he didn't want to talk about it right then. "Let's focus on you. What do you think all of this means? And why in the hell were you up on a beam when your balance has been so bad and your legs have been giving out randomly?"

Zach winced at the last questions because Diego was right, and Zev would likely read Zach the riot act later over this. "I don't know. I'd been feeling better recently, and we hadn't seen any recent issues with the legs. Getting into the work is part of the business, and I wanted to get back to things being more normal again when they hadn't been in a while. It just...it feels so unfair to lose my independence and ability to work for my living. It feels like everything has been spiraling out of control for a while now, and I can't do anything to fix it. The only bright spots are you and Nadya."

Diego nodded as if he understood that, "I get that, but you have to take care of yourself so you don't end up leaving Nadya and me without you to brighten our days."

"I know," Zach agreed and looked ...

... down at his hands, which he was fiddling with anxiously. It took another forty minutes before they let them leave, and they stopped by the site to get Zach's car afterward and drove home.

Zev was already at the house when they pulled up, parked on the street, and Zach looked nervous as he parked the car and they went into the living room. Zev looked a lot like his children, though his hair was a dark blond as opposed to the auburn hair his children sported. He was taller than his sons and imposing, and Zach kind of slunk by him to go and sit down on the couch where Nadya crawled over to him from Brinxton's lap and snuggled into his side like she had been waiting for that.

"I can't believe you," Zev said once everyone was settled, all of his attention on his oldest. "You were a liability to the company and to our workers! On top of that, you could have gotten yourself killed! And all for what, your god damned ego?! That was not the decision making of a CEO in training, so if you can't do this job, then you tell me now and we can bring someone better in who can!"

"Dad," Zayne chided gently. He knew his dad was angry but he wasn't sure Zach deserved all of that.

Zach bit his lower lip, his eyes trained on the ground as he blinked away tears. "I'm sorry," he finally said in a small voice, one Diego had never heard come from Zach before. "I'm sorry."

Diego's suppressed anger at Zach surged forward, redirected in his defense. He stood up, berating Zev in a mixture of ...