Chapter 51Julian found him exactly where the text said he'd be, hunched over an untouched whisky."You look terrible," Julian said, dropping onto the stool beside him without waiting for an invitation. He signalled the bartender, two fingers up, and didn't take his coat off. "Properly terrible. What happened, did somebody die?""Not yet," Ashton said. Julian studied him for a moment, the easy grin fading into something more careful. He'd known Ashton for years, and he knew the difference between Ashton annoyed and Ashton actually wrecked. This was the second one. "Talk." Ashton turned the glass slowly on the bar, watching the whisky catch the low light. "Hailey came to the hospital tonight." Julian went still. "Hailey Hailey? Your Hailey?""She's not my anything anymore.""That's not what I asked." Ashton didn't answer. The bartender set Julian's drink down and retreated to the far end of the counter, sensing that this particular corner needed to be left alone."She walked int
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