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“Nothing,” Ty answered with a shrug, his expression unreadable as he turned his head to look at Zane He sat on the end of the bed, one eyebrow cocked curiously as he waited for Zane to continue what he had been saying

Zane tilted his head, frowning a little “Helphis thumb over his own shoulder

“Sure thing,” Ty rab the ointment “Does it still hurt?”

“If I move too quick or twist side to side, it’s sharp Otherwise just a dull ache, a few spikes here and there,” Zane said

“Pansy,” Ty offered with a smirk

Zane sighed “I’ll have to lose a liet any respect from you, won’t I?” he said, deadpan

“Maybe not a whole lihtfully as he er

Shaking his head, Zane spun slowly in place, presenting Ty with his back He closed his eyes at the first touch of Ty’s fingers, telling hiut

“Relax,” Ty ht muscles

“You’re so damn tense, no wonder you still hurt” He huffed as he prodded at soers into the tin of salve and began dabbing it onto the open wounds, thenit into the areas around them carefully

“You try taking a sheet of glass in the back and not be tense,” Zane objected, though he had to ad about Ty was digging at him; the attitude, the bullshit, the hard-ass style—

none of it fit with the gentle touches of his fingers Zane’s body was noticing

“No, thanks,” Ty responded wryly “I prefer not to be a moron”

“I’m flattered I’ve moved up from idiot to moron,” Zane said “And you have moved up fro assle”

“Only?” Ty repeated with a huff “It takes effort to be this abrasive, I hope you realize”

“Yeah, I guess so But you just make it look so easy”

“Ilook easy,” Ty responded with a smirk that Zane couldn’t see

“I can’t judge that ’til I see it,” Zane said with an apologetic shake of his head as he rolled his shoulders under Ty’s fingers

“See what, everything?” Ty asked in amusement

Zane bit his lip on a s easy”

“I ah

“Now see here, you’ve already proven the opposite You’re not easy to get along with, you’re not easy to understand, you’re not easy to keep froers

“I think the glass is what got under your skin And I am perfectly understandable,” Ty said as he let his heavy Appalachian accent take over “I enunciate,” he replied with special drawling emphasis on the last word

Zane chuckled, al of you more as a thorn, actually”