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"I know"

Nick grunted and picked up his pen again "Anything else you didn’t see?"

"No, but you don’t have to be snippy about it"

Nick fumed for a second "What time did you return to your roohed

"Ty, just answer the fucking questions, okay?"

Ty rolled his eyes "Zane ith ot tied up in the curtains"

Nick squeezed his eyes closed "Why would you tell ot tied up in the curtains I got stuck Zane left

Ty rolled his eyes, blushing a little "I got tangled in the curtains and I couldn’t stop laughing, so Zane left me there and I fell asleep"

"You mean you passed out drunk"

"If that’s what they call ‘sleeping’ in Boston, sure"

"Socould Zane have left the roouess"

Nick gave a curt nod and jotted it down

"Did you just write that down?" Ty asked with an accusatory point

"Yes"

"Why?"

"Because I’ down, Ty"

"You didn’t write down that you and Deacon were getting high in the garden!"

"Because it wasn’t pertinent to theht you said you weren’t drunk"

"Don’t try to confuse et a confession, damn you!"

"Tyler, come on!"

"This is police brutality!"

"I swear to God, Beaulowered for a moment "Okay, so is that all?"

"Yeah"

"Your turn?"

Nick’s stoled up, but he nodded and slid the pad across the bar top "Go for it"

Ty ran through the sa With every answer, Nick gotlie detector test at this point

"What time did you return to your rooht"

"And you were there the reht?"

"I was" Nick watched as Ty’s pen moved across the pad He swiped his pal to steel hi

"What did you do in your rooht?"

Nick sed hard "I was in bed"

Ty raised his head "You were in bed or you were sleeping?"

Nick stared at hi his breath "I was in bed"

Ty’s eyebrows shot up, and he straightened He al the answer, like ht to know Nick hadn’t been sleeping, but he still seeather you weren’t alone"

"No, I wasn’t," Nick answered He took a deep, shaky breath "Look, Ty, this is not the way I wanted to tell you about this We aiting until after the wedding stuff died down so you wouldn’t freak out and go nuclear when you’re already under stress"

Ty narrowed his eyes He placed the pen on his pad of paper, theNick’s eyes "Who?" Ty asked, his voice going low and dangerous

"Oh, Ty, don’t freak out"

"Who were you with, O’Flaherty?"

Nick couldn’t get enough air to take a breath to steady himself, much less extract a promise from Ty to remain calm "I ith Kelly," he said in a rush

Ty stared, his brow furrowing and the tension seeping out of his shoulders "Kelly who?"

Nick frowned "Kelly Our Kelly Doc"

Ty was still staring like he didn’t understand, his head cocked like a puppy hearing a new sound He glanced at the door, then at Nick again "You were fucking Kelly?"

"Yes"

Ty was silent for several ht you were talking about Ehed in relief This was not the reaction he’d expected, but he’d take it

Ty laughed harder, but soon he wound down and then stood up "Wait, you were boning Kelly? How fucking high were you two last night?"

"That’s notit’s not just last night"

"What does that mean?" Ty demanded

"Ihiun"

"What the fuck,story"

"I have ti on?"

"It started after New Orleans, e got to Colorado"

"That wasthat wasthis out now?"