Chapter 19
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
“WELL, WELL, ANDREAS,” I said. “Now I’ve got you on my table for a change. What happened?”
“I was showing off on the slopes and got careless.”
“You, showing off! Surely not! Were you trying to impress someone?”
“He was trying to impress me,” a young man standing on the other side of the gurney said. I noticed for the first time that he was holding Andreas’ hand.
“And you are?”
“Nick Pappas.”
“My new boyfriend,” Andreas said.
I looked at the nurse and said, “X-rays?”
“We were about to send him up to imaging, Doctor, when he asked for you by name.”
“Let me look him over first. Would you ask someone to show Mr. Pappas to the waiting room?”
“I can’t stay with Andreas?” Nick said.
“It’s all right, Nikki,” Andreas said. “Marco is family—he will tak
