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    â€œIt’s kind of a big thing, but I need someone on Josh until we know what we’re dealing with. I’m sure you have plans this weekend—”
    â€œActually, Elin is going wedding dress shopping with her friends for the weekend, so I’m on my own.”
    â€œHow do you feel about hunkering down in a hotel with him until we know more?”
    â€œI’d much rather hunker down in a hotel with Elin, but since that’s not happening this weekend, I can do it.”
    â€œAre you sure? I’m technically not allowed to ask you to do anything, and I’m not sure how the OT will work. I’ll clean it up later with Malone.”
    â€œDon’t sweat it. It all comes out in the wash.”
    â€œIn case I forget to tell you, you’re the best.”
    â€œYeah, yeah, so you say until you get mad with me and I’m not the best anymore.”
    â€œWhen was the last time I was mad with you?”
    â€œUm, when I tuned up Elliott?” he asked of the man who’d assaulted his fiancée.
    â€œThat was a very specific instance of you doing something stupid.”
    â€œSort of like you punching Ramsey?”
    â€œJust like,” she said with a laugh. “Touché.”
    â€œWhere’s Josh now?”
    â€œMy living room.”
    â€œSeriously? You brought him home with you?”
    â€œWhere else was I supposed to take him? HQ is off limits to me at the moment, and I wanted him somewhere that no one could get to him. This place is like Fort Knox these days, so where better?”
    â€œI’ll come get him.”
    â€œEnter at your own risk. Nick and Scotty are down hard with something that could be the flu but more closely resembles the bubonic plague.”
    â€œAh, damn, that’s too bad.”
    â€œPuts a damper on my plans for a restful break,” she said as she looked in on Scotty and then Nick. Both were sleeping peacefully—for the moment.
    The doorbell rang, and Sam headed for the stairs, praying it was Harry. “I gotta go. I’ll see you when you get here.”
    â€œI’ll be there within the hour.”
    â€œThanks again.”
    â€œNo problem.”
    It was a huge problem and an even bigger imposition, but he wouldn’t say so, and that made him the best partner she’d ever had. He did whatever she asked of him, no matter how outrageous the request.
    She reached the living room as Brant ushered Dr. Harry Flynn into the house. “Thank God you’re here. My boys are sick as dogs.”
    The handsome, dark-haired doctor kissed her cheek. “Boys plural?”
    â€œScotty came home with the same thing Nick has. They’re both scary sick.”
    â€œDr. Harry’s on the job. Lead the way.”
    â€œBe right back,” Sam said to Josh as she took Harry upstairs, first to Scotty, who hadn’t budged since she tucked him in.
    Harry took his temperature with a thingie he swiped over the boy’s forehead. “One-oh-three. That’s one heck of a fever. Did he mention any symptoms other than the vomiting?”
    â€œHe could barely hold himself up, let alone talk.”
    â€œAnd he was fine this morning?”
    â€œThey both were—and then they weren’t.”
    â€œIt’s going around. We’ve seen it in the office.”
    Sam felt slightly better to hear her guys hadn’t been taken down by something random.
    â€œIt’s usually a miserable day or two before they start to rebound.” He finished examining Scotty. “Let me take a quick look at Nick.”
    â€œRight this way.”
    Nick woke up while Harry was taking his temperature. “What’re you doing in my bedroom?”
    â€œI came to seduce your wife since you’re not capable at the moment.”
    Nick groaned and attempted a smile. “Hands off. She’s all mine.”
    â€œOne-oh-two,” Harry said, reading from the LCD. “How did it come on and