Chapter 95

“What the fuck, Noah. It’s zero-dark-thirty. What’s your problem? Go back to sleep.”

Noah smiled. Yeah, that was the Mason he’d come to know and lo—Fuck. “Mason, you’re in the hospital. The doctor’s here. He wants to talk to you.”

Mason opened first one, then the other eye. He gazed around to take in Noah, the doctor, and the nurse, who’d come back in the room.

“Fuck.”

“I thought you’d say that,” Noah agreed.

“Good morning, Mr. Carlyle. It is rather early, but we thought it would be a good time to check you out, as you just recently woke up.”

“Yeah. But I fell back to sleep.”

“I’m sorry about that. We’ll check you over quickly, then you can go back to sleep. At least until a more reasonable hour, when the nurses come back, pushing and prodding,” the doctor said.

“Not that reasonable. We still have our morning rounds to do.” The nurse peered at her watch. “That’ll be in about two and a half hours.”