Fighting Addiction by Tortuga BA

Author:Tortuga, BA [Tortuga, BA]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian
Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Markus counted pills, putting them back into the bottles with tiny clinks.

Sebastian had cut back by almost a third in the last few days, and Markus couldn't be more proud. Hell, Bev seemed torn between relief and abject panic. She didn't know what to do with a sleepy, eating Seb.

Of course, Bev hadn't been dealing with the paranoia, the night sweats, the hysterical phone calls searching for a goddamn paraglide company in Arizona that did full moon flights at two a.m.

Markus figured she deserved three days off. Hell, he'd decided to take a night off the bus and get them a goddamned hotel room. In-room hot tub, giant bed, room service delivered to the antechamber where no one could see anyone but Bev sign for it...

Sebastian was sleeping in the Jacuzzi right now, head back and bubbling away. Markus could see those cute as hell toes bobbing on the other side of the tub from Seb's head. He grinned, thinking of going and tickling those toes, when he heard his cell ringing back in the bedroom.

That was his girl, and he needed to talk to Tawny anyway. He hadn't seen her in days and he missed her face. He scratched his belly, making a mental note to fish Seb out before his blood pressure dropped through the floor. Twenty minutes maybe. He shut the bedroom door halfway and grabbed his phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Scooter. How's it hanging?" She sounded like a slice of home, husky and somehow always laughing.

"Not bad at all." The last few days had been up and down, but he'd gotten to spend them with Seb, so he wasn't gonna complain. "How are you, lady?"

"I'm doing okay. Chilling out, working. Normal stuff. How's the tour going? I haven't heard any complaints from anyone lately. It's sort of creepy. I'm waiting for disaster."

"Lord, don't say that." He chewed his lip, trying to decide how much to tell her. Thing was, he'd found it was always best to be honest with Tawny. His manager had always had his back. "You ought to know. Seb and I, well, we're, uh -- running hot."

"Yeah?" He didn't hear a lot of surprise in her voice, but there wasn't any censure, either. "Well, it is good? I mean, you're happy?"

"I am. I think he is, too, but this is a messed up thing he's got going, Tawn. He's running on fumes."

"Is he... Is there... I mean." She sighed and he could see it, her blowing her hair out of her face. "What's he into? I can't help if I don't know."

Markus listed the names of the drugs he'd read off the pill bottles. "Anti-depressants and ADHD stuff. All prescription. It's a hell of a cocktail, though."

"Uh-huh. You. Look, I hate to be awful, you know I do, but... Is someone prescribing them?"

"His doctor, yeah." Markus peered out to make sure Seb was asleep. "Tawny, he never needed this stuff before. Remember? When I was self-medicating like crazy, he was the sane one."

"Honey, the schedule he's on.

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