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duty nurse till three.”
    “Sophia.”
    “That was your sister and her husband before?”
    “Yes. Eden and Xander.”
    “Ah, newlyweds.” She had a soft look in her eye. “Now we need to get this fine fellow up and around—functioning again. You need your man back. You can give me a hand to clean him up if you like.”
    Nancy took me a little by surprise. She moved with a very pragmatic and determined air. Maybe it was because she was older. I had absolutely no question she was highly competent and used to doing things her way.
    “Um…” I said, moving to the visitor’s chairs to drop my handbag.
    “Up to you, but I know if I was you, I’d feel better doing something.”
    When she put it like that…
    “I’ll be back in a few seconds with what we need.”
    True to her word, she was. Not only was Nurse Nancy a whirlwind, she was super efficient and I gathered she left many of the younger nurses in her wake.
    “So, what do you need me to do?” I asked as she came back in wheeling a trolley with supplies and a big basin of water.
    “How about I do the official washing and rinsing, then you can follow on with some moisturising lotion? The constant exposure to the air-conditioning in here really dries out the skin and the in-activity doesn’t help either.”
    “Am I allowed to do this?”
    She gave me a withering look that was somehow more playful than chastising. “You’re his significant other, aren’t you?”
    I nodded, not quite trusting my voice.
    “Then, you’re allowed. I dare say there’s nothing here you haven’t seen before.”
    At that, I giggled and I’m sure I blushed a little. “Ah, no.”
    She gave me a wink. “Aren’t you the lucky one? Girls were drawing straws over who was going to take this shift. I figured I needed to put a stop to that. You don’t need that. Benefits of being the senior around here.”
    “I guess it’s understandable, but thank you.” I meant it too. I wasn’t above feeling a little annoyed at all the looks he was garnering from the female nurses.
    “Also unprofessional. Nope, your man here is just a couple of years older than my eldest, Troy. He’s safe with me. I’ve scheduled a couple of the male nurses for the remainder of the week to take the other shifts.”
    “I’m sure it would have been fine.”
    “You know girls…”
    “Oh, I do.” I knew better than most what girls were like.
    “You like him shaved or with…what do you kids call it…scruff?”
    “Scruff is fine. He often lets it grow for a few days, then either shaves it off or trims it really short.”
    Nancy began the bed bath routine, efficiently lathering sponges, soaping then rinsing off the area before finally patting that section of his body dry.
    “He sure puts some work into this body,” Nancy chatted as she worked on one shoulder and arm then the other.
    “Martial arts. We train a lot. Seth used to be a pro-fighter. Now, he mainly trains for fun and helps a couple of our friends train. Xander, who you met before, is one of them,” I explained.
    “He’s the one that the girls were all giggling and whispering about—some big deal?”
    “Yeah, you could say that. He won a massive fight in Vegas a few months back. He starts serious training for the World Title any day now.”
    She nodded, taking that all in. “What about you? You said you train too?”
    “I do. I’ve trained with Xander for about three years now. I’ve trained with Seth quite a lot since he came home as well about six months ago.” Immediately, I realized my potential error. I shouldn’t have put a timeline on our relationship.
    “Whirlwind romance, hey?”
    “Something like that. We sort of noticed each other the first night he was home, and that was kind of it. I knew him from afar as a kid. His sister is a friend of mine.” It wasn’t quite true but it would certainly do for the purposes of this conversation.
    “Happened just the same with my Tony. We met one night at a party and boom, that