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Lucas frowned before lancing at Jake. "Is he?"

Jake shrugged. "I never asked."

"If he is," Kyue said, "his husband or wife doesn't attend our get-togethers."

"Is Hu gay?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know," Jake replied, "but wouldn't it turn the mafia world on his head if he was."

I frowned in confusion. "Why?"

"Gay is not readily accepted in the mafia world. It's only been the last couple of years that things have become a lot freer, and that's mostly due to the men we mentioned."

"They couldn't care less if someone has an issue with them being gay," Lucas continued. "They will love who they love and the rest of the mafia world can go fuck themselves as far as they are concerned."

While I agreed with that belief for the most part, Jake was right. It didn't sound very healthy in the mafia world.

Glad I wasn't mafia.

Chapter Ten

~ Patrick ~

"Hey, you busy?"

I glanced down at the medical journal in my lap. "Just doing a little reading."

"What about your better half?" Jake asked.

I smiled as I glanced at the man curled up beside me, his eyes intent on the book he was looking at. "He's reading, too."

We'd taken to curling up in bed together to read and keep up on our medical knowledge. We had our state licensing tests coming up soon and we both wanted to make sure we knew all the ins and outs to pass the exams.

"You want to swing by my office for some coffee?"

"Yeah, that would be fine," I replied. "Is everything okay, Jake?"

Zaq glanced up at me.

"Everything is good. Joe just talked to me about that idea you guys passed between you two concerning the on-call doctor gig and I thought we could sit down and talk it over, see if it's something you'd be interested in or if it's even feasible."

"Yeah, okay," I said. "Give us a few minutes to washes our faces and we'll be right over." We also needed to get dressed. Cuddle time had definitely become a naked sport over the last several weeks.

"See you soon."

Jake hung up before I could say more.

"Jake wants us to come down to his office to discuss that on-call doctor thing," I told Zaq. "We need to get dressed."

"I'm against it, but okay."

I lifted an eyebrow. "I thought you were in favor of the on-call doctor thing."

Zaq swung the blankets back and then scooted to the edge of the bed. "I'm against putting on clothes."

When he stood up in all of his naked glory, I knew I was against it too. Granted, we'd need them to go out because no one got to see my husband except me, but I also wanted to punch Jake right in the mouth.

"Come on," Zaq urged. "The quicker we get dressed and go talk to Jake, the quicker we can come back and get naked again."

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