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Two other friends David Smith and Adam Mercury joined them as soon as they came off of the dance floor. David and Adam high-fived him, too.
“Where have you been hiding yourself?” David asked.
“I just asked him the same thing,” Nash said.
“At work,” Chance answered.
“He’s been busy,” Nash said.
“We’ve all been busy, man,” Adam said. “But it doesn’t stop us from coming here for a little fun.”
Nash called for a waiter. The guy came over quickly.
“What can I get for you guys?” the waiter asked.
“Bring us a couple of pitchers of beer and four glasses,” Nash said.
The waiter winked at Chance. “I haven’t seen you in here in a while.”
“We were just telling him the same thing,” Adam said.
The waiter left. Chance checked out his butt.Nice, but not as nice as Derek’s.“I had a deadline to meet. Then I found the perfect guy for the cover of our magazine.”
Adam looked up first. “Oh? How perfect?”
He’d known these guys about twelve years, and Adam was a notorious flirt. When he wasn’t working on guys’ heads at his salon, he was hanging out in clubs with his boyfriend David.
“Picture wavy, black hair, piercing green eyes, and a smile that could light up Alaska during their sixty days of nights.”
“Sounds dreamy,” Adam said.
“Hey, aren’t you still working for that baby magazine at the moment?” Nash asked.
“Yes, he has an eight-month-old child.”
Adam’s expression changed. He kind of looked at Chance oddly.
“By perfect do you mean for the magazine or for you?” David asked.
The waiter came back with their beer. Nash paid for it and did the honor of pouring and serving.
Chance chuckled. David worked as a psychiatrist and handled a lot of Austin’s wealthiest citizens and their kids. He always tried to help work out their problems. Chance’s love life was his favorite subject. “Both.”
“Ooh, he has a baby, run for the hills, Chance,” Nash said.
Adam agreed with him. “Yeah, man. Why do you want to get hooked up with a ready-made family?”
All three of his friends were confirmed bachelors; Adam and David had been dating since college and were nowhere close to getting to the altar.
“Don’t listen to them,” David said. “There’s nothing wrong with dating a guy with a child.”
“Says you,” Adam said. “Where’s the child’s mother?”
“Dead,” Chance answered. “She was Derek’s sister. She and the child’s father were killed in a car accident and Derek’s is the baby’s only next of kin.”
Nash raised his glass and sipped. “Sounds like too much trouble to me.”
“That’s because you don’t like kids,” David said to him.
