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I rolled my eyes, and gestured at Harris. “He’s Nick. To me, at least.”

Kyrie eyed me with suspicion. “Nick? Since when do you call Harris Nick?”

Harris was suspiciously silent, studiously scraping every last drop of chocolate pudding out of the cup. I poked his leg. “You want to tell them…babe?”

He shook his head. “Nope. It’s all you.”

Kyrie and Roth exchanged perplexed glances.

“Tell us what?” Roth asked. “What’s going on, Harris?”

Harris shrugged. “Nothing.”

I glared at him. “Nothing? Fuckingreally?”

He glared back. “I don’t owe anybody any explanations as to who I fall in love with.”

Kyrie shrieked so loud we all flinched. “I knew it! I FUCKING KNEW IT!” She collided with me again, squeezing me so hard my breath left me and I saw stars. “Tell me everything! How long has this been going on?”

“Calm your ass down, bitch.” I untangled myself from her arms. “Strangle me, and I won’t be able to tell you dick.”

“Sorry. Sorry. I’m just excited. I knew you and Harris had a little somethin’-somethin’ going on. This is awesome!”

I took Harris’s hand and twined our fingers together, and wonder of wonders, he let me. Right there, in front of both Kyrie and Roth and Thresh. “It was kind of a surprise for both of us.”

“I had to all but club you over the head to get you to admit you even liked me,” Harris said.

I shrugged. “I may be easy, but I’m not an easy person to like.”

He growled at me. “You’re not easy.”

“Not any more. At least, not for anyone but you.”

Roth wiped his face with both hands. “I feel like I’ve fallen through the rabbit hole into Wonderland.”

At that moment, we heard the door open and Thresh speaking in low tones to someone on the other side. “I hear what you’re saying, Doc. We’ll let him rest. But this is important.”

“He shouldn’t even haveonevisitor,” a female voice said, sounding frustrated, “let alonefour. And just because you’re a fucking giant doesn’t mean you can tell me what to do in my ward.”

“Actually, it kind of does. You don’t have enough security guards in this entire building to handle me. Which means when I say it’ll be fine, it’ll be fine. Our meeting will be over in a few minutes and we’ll all leave him to rest. All right?”

“Shit.” This was mumbled, exasperated and defeated. “Fine. But you all need face masks and you have to sanitize your hands. His immune system is weak right now. The last thing he needs is to catch something from one of you.”

“Chuck Norris doesn’t get a cold, the cold gets Chuck Norris.”

“What?” She sounded utterly puzzled.

“Nothing. It’s a joke. Never mind. We’ll wash our fucking hands, okay?”

“Face masks too. Or I’ll shoot your giant ass with an elephant tranquilizer and drag you out of here myself.”

“I’ve been shot with an elephant tranquilizer, actually. It just got me high. Kind of fun actually. You wanna try that, you’ll need two or three.” I heard the grin in his voice. “And babe, you want to drag me out of here, you won’t need a tranquilizer. It’ll be more fun if I’m conscious anyway.”

“Jesus. You’re a piece of work, you know that?”

“Been told that, yes.”

“I’m going to lunch. When I come back in thirty minutes, I want this room clear. Or we really will see how many security guards it takes to subdue your freakishly oversized carcass.”