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    he let Talbot know it as he marched up to the club owner. Will glared up, careful to keep his voice neutral and quiver-free.
    “Troy is a big boy. He can decide for himself if he wants me to stay away.”
    Xavier didn’t like that at all, as evidenced by the way his shoulders tensed and his scowl turned into something dangerous and fierce looking. Will started to take a step back and caught himself only at the last moment. Xavier sneered. “And what do you think he’ll decide after I’ve told him we’ve seen everything?”
    “Everything?” Will echoed, and the damnable invisible imp residing on his shoulder, the imp that frequently encouraged him to speak without thinking it through, took over. Will grinned and tipped his head to the side. “It was pretty hot, huh? And the cowboy, Carlos?
    Oh my God! He was incredible, too, wasn’t he? And who is ‘we’? Do we get compensated for your viewing pleasure? What’s the going daily rate for porn actors?”
    Xavier gaped, that was the only word for it, and his cheeks turned ruddy, and Will, feeling like himself once more, giggled, especially when Glenn made a strangled sound behind him. Will craned his head around and noticed how flushed Glenn looked. “Aw, did you watch it, too? The whole thing? Because I wouldn’t have thought it’d be necessary. I mean, whoever was watching it had to have caught on real quick to what was happening, right?” Will knew his smile had to be the hot side of evil as he looked back and forth at both men. “Can I get a copy of it?”
    “Oh my God.” Xavier looked flummoxed and Glenn just seemed like he was torn
    between laughing and dying of embarrassment.
    “Go,” Glenn rasped and this time, Xavier went without a protest.
    Will propped a hand on one hip and arched a brow at Glenn. His amusement withered when he thought about the trouble he’d likely got Troy in. “Is he going to fire Troy?”
    Glenn frowned as if he didn’t understand the question. Will started to repeat it but Glenn threw a hand up to shush him before studying Will intently. “I don’t get you. I can’t quite convince myself you’re the epitome of evil when I know you’re just doing your job.”
    Will shrugged. “You don’t have to ‘get’ me. And I’ve never done anything to James. All I’m doing now is checking in on him when he has his psych appointments here—and before you ask, duh, I’m a PI, so I can find things out, yanno.”
    “How much digging have you done?”
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    And didn’t Glenn sound like he was getting angry? Will’s urge to poke at the man was tempered by the fact that the guy was just looking out for his partner. “Not much, but I thought a tiny bit of snooping might appease his parents. At least they’ve quit threatening to ruin my life, destroy my career, make sure I can’t even work at the corner gas station and all those other rich-people-can-squash-not-rich-people threats, if I don’t find a way to get James back to them.”
    “They don’t sound much different than the asshole who had James abducted the first time,” Glenn muttered.
    Will thought he did well not to roll his eyes or say anything sarcastic. Instead he tried to be a mature, reasonable adult. It was weird and made him feel kinda dirty. “I don’t think they are, and I’d just like to point out, if one of my sisters, or my brother, or God forbid, my dad, were here instead of me? It’d be a totally different deal. They wouldn’t give a shit if James seemed happy here, or if it looks like he feels like he’s home. All they’d care about was doing their job, whether it was what was best for him or not.” Will bit his lip and glanced down at the ground. Okay, he’d gone and done the whole