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Vance is looking around the roohtful expression, and it hits me that they must know all the tips and tricks They spent soot a ton of media attention

Vance steps closer to ?” he asks softly

I shake my head

“We’re gonna go to a hotel across the street, and one of us will text you in about three hours”

“That’s when she’ll be up again,” Luke explains, stepping behind Vance so I can see hi too much

“Thank you You don’t have to do that…if you’re busy or so”

“We’re glad to,” Vance says, at the same time Luke says, “We want to”

“Thank you”

Ezra shifts his shoulders, and I lighten ives Luke and Vance a little sainst him

Once the roo ti that blows itself up like a blood pressure cuff every so often, and it wakes me a few times, but Ez is deep in dreaood

Ez gets restless around sunrise—about the sae shifts and a doctor from orthopedics comes into our room to check him over He’s awake for that, but he see to act nor fuzzy fro, and Ez presses his face against hter with his arm that’s wrapped around my shoulders

“Everything looks good,” the doctor tells us when he’s finished He tells us Ez will need to check in with an ortho group in Alabae, and I promise we’ll do it

For a while, the rooo without a trip to the restroom when Ezra’s arm, draped aroundmy spine

“You been in the bed all night?” he asks, his voice gruff from sleep

I smile up at him “Maybe”

“You need to pee?”

I laugh “Maybe”

“’S okay You can go” He looks frowny, like he ht be in pain I kiss his cheek “You okay?”

He nods When I step out of the restroom, he’s still awake He smiles, just a twitch of his cheek, and he says, “You don’t have to get in…if you don’t want to”