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and waved Misty, who’d trailed in behind them,
    back out of the room. “I’ve got this. See if Doctor Velez is available, would you?”
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    Les blanched at hearing the doctor’s name. Velez was old enough to be Les’ father, and Les had been treated by the man before—many times. He was one of the few doctors still on staff here who’d know about Les’ childhood, how fucked up it’d been for years. “He the only doc on hand?”
    Josh cut him a glance but didn’t ask any questions, for which Les was grateful. “No, but he’s the best, and he will load you up with a bunch of good drugs and release you unless you have pneumonia, so I figure he’s who needs to see you.”
    Les grunted again and gave in to the lethargy pulling at him. He laid back and
    dragged his legs up onto the bed, disgusted at how weak he felt. “Velez is fine, then.” Les closed his eyes and tried to relax at least a little as Josh began examining him, slapping a blood pressure cuff around his arm.
    “Very nice,” Josh purred. Les cracked an eye open to find Josh giving him a teasing leer as he stroked Les’ biceps. “You must work out a lot.”
    “When I can.” Les closed his eye again and promptly began coughing, which was a
    workout in itself. At this rate his abs were going to hurt like hell. “So how’s things going for you and…” that asshole, “Nick?” Les asked to distract himself from his misery.
    “Oh, well, we…it’s…ah.”
    Les opened both eyes this time to peer at Josh. The man sounded unhappy. If Nick
    had done anything to hurt the little guy, Les would have a nice long chat with Nick. And he’d try not to knock the man’s teeth out. Maybe. “You need me to—”
    “No!” Josh shook his head so hard Les thought he could hear the wind whipping
    through Josh’s hair. “No, it isn’t like that. We’re good, it’s just…well, he had this friend in Montana, see, and…”
    By the time Josh was done complaining about Nick’s friend Adam, Les was almost
    sorry he’d asked how things were going for Josh in the first place. He scrubbed at his sweaty brow and wished Doc Velez would hurry the fuck up. Trying to organise the info dump from Josh, Les peeked under his palm at the nurse. “So this guy, Adam, was a friend of Nick’s, nothing more, and he—Adam—beat up a would be rapist, then helped put the pervert in jail, and now the perv’s rich daddy has pretty much run this Adam out of town and he needs a place to stay—”
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    “And his mother,” Josh interrupted, shaking his head, “don’t forget his mother, too.
    Both of them were evicted from their apartments.”
    That alone made Les shudder. He couldn’t imagine having to live with his mother.
    “And Nick asked you if they could stay in your old apartment until the lease is up?”
    Josh nodded. “Yeah, which, I mean, we’re living at the ranch now, just moved last weekend, but…I don’t know about having the guy down here.”
    Les could see Josh’s point, but he also thought Josh was missing a very important one himself. “Josh, Adam sounds like he was a good friend to Nick, nothing more. Unless you think Nick lied about them never fucking.”
    Josh blushed adorably as he wrote something down on Les’ chart. “No, I trust Nick, and I know he didn’t have sex with Adam. I was his first man and I’ll be the last, too.” Josh winked and Les wished vehemently that he were somewhere else. “Anyway, it’s just that Adam’s so… Well, he’s really hot, all blond and petite and smart and strong enough to take on a rapist—”
    Les was caught on the petite part, trying to figure out what that meant coming from Josh, who wasn’t exactly a burly giant. Josh was petite, at least to Les, so he couldn’t imagine this Adam guy except as some prepubescent angelic little boy, which was, frankly, disturbing. Still, he realised Josh was bouncing through a bout of