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embarrassment in his tone. Then he compliments Jenny on Dylan’s fat baby cheeks, and squeezes Patrick’s shoulder before taking the offered seat at their table.
    “Congratulations, Dr. McCloud. Dr. Topol has formally accepted our offer, and Dr. Lerma has indicated she’s planning to accept by this afternoon as well. Two neurosurgeons handpicked by you to round out our new unit. I’m pleased and I hope you are too.”
    “Pleased might be stretching it, but since there’s only one of me, these two yahoos will have to do.”
    “You’re a hard man to satisfy. I hope you go easier on Will at home.”
    Jenny chokes on her coffee and grabs a napkin to cover her mouth. Patrick smiles wickedly.
    “You’re two peas in a pod.” Don shakes his head in a fatherly way at the two of them. “Cheap jokes and dirty minds.”
    Patrick opens his mouth to confirm Don’s assessment when his beeper goes off. One look at the code and he’s on his feet. “That’s for me. Sorry to cut this short.” He taps the device on his hip. “Next up, old man, after we complete the unit, we’re getting rid of these dinosaurs. Pagers are the dark ages of hospital communications technology.”
    “Get your husband to fund the upgrade and we’ve got a deal, Dr. McCloud.” Don rises too. “I’ll accompany you. I need to get back to sorting through all the glorious paperwork.”
    Dylan is sleeping now, blowing bubbles of spit as he dreams. Patrick bends low to press a kiss to his fat cheek. Then he winks at Jenny as he pulls on his winter gear. “Enjoy your afternoon delight.”
    “Pfft. As if.”
    He raises his brows and throws a significant look toward Jax, who’s making a show of cleaning a table near them. “You’ve got a few days before you’ll be out of commission for a month or more. Make the most of it. Seize the day.”
    Following Don out the door he looks over his shoulder. Jax leans over the back of Patrick’s empty chair grinning at Jenny. She tucks her hair behind her ear and a smile lights up her whole face.
    So long as Jax makes Jenny smile like that, Patrick’s down with their affair. Screw age differences. Screw being in a different place in life. Look at him and Will. They’re making the best of it. With orgasms. Jenny and Jax should do the same.
    He pulls out his phone and shoots a message to Will. Got called in for emergency surgery. I’ll be late tonight.
    Bubbles appear.
    Good luck. You’ve got this. See you when you get home.
    Eager to get this surgery started so he can get home to his achingly sexy, mostly fake husband, Patrick claps Don on the shoulder, says, “Make way. Super Surgeon to the rescue,” and jogs ahead to the hospital.

Chapter Twenty-Five
 
    Will waits for the only stop light in town to change to green. Caitlin’s strapped in next to him and Olivia’s reading a book in the backseat. The kids are headed out to the farm to stay with Grandma Betty and Kevin for the night. Connor is already there, dropped off by the school bus earlier in the day.
    “I hate her,” Caitlin says.
    “No, you don’t. You just want to hate her.”
    “And why shouldn’t I?” Caitlin shoves her blond hair away from her full cheek. “She’s with Jason all the time now. We’ve been out on the farm for the last week. Uncle Kevin and Grandma Betty are making excuses for her, but it’s just the same old thing all over again. She always chooses them over us.”
    “She’s…” Will doesn’t know how to explain what their mother is, but he feels like he has to try. He’s the big brother. “She’s…”
    “She’s addicted to it,” Caitlin says, like she’s read his mind. “Is it sex, Will? Is sex really so amazing a woman will mess her life up for it every chance she gets?”
    “Caitlin,” he warns, flinging a glance at Olivia in the backseat.
    “I know about sex,” Olivia pipes up, not looking up from her book. “We learned about it in health class.”
    Will’s head is full of Do-Not-Want, but he