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These guys loved each other and she wasn’t sure how deep that ran. She was pretty sure they both wanted more, but that neither of them wanted to risk losing the other. She got that.
But right then, they weren’t happy with each other.
“Guys,” she whispered.
“She better not have been anywhere close when you threw that,” Steele said.
Oh. He was worried about her?
“Grady wouldn’t hurt me,” she said with full confidence.
They both turned to look at her.
“He wouldn’t. And you shouldn’t get angry at him. That’s not nice.” She wiggled a finger at Steele.
“Not nice?”
“Neither is sharing seecits.” Oops. She hadn’t meant to say it like that. “I mean, secrets.”
Steele’s face warmed. Really. His moods definitely changed on a dime.
“Seecits?” he queried.
“I didn’t mean to say it like that.”
“I think my baby needs some time in Little headspace today,” Steele mused.
Oh boy. She wanted that. Badly. But she didn’t want Grady to feel left out. This was a strange balancing act in some ways. She glanced at Grady. He looked contemplative.
“That would be nice,” she said.
“It would be nice.” Steele’s lips twitched, then his gaze went over the floor again. “Is that blood?”
“What?” Grady’s gaze shot to the floor, then up to her. He grabbed one of her feet, turning it over. “You’ve got cuts on your feet because you stepped on the shards of that mug. Why didn’t you say anything? Why didn’t I notice?”
“I’m fine. Really.”
His face was filled with self-loathing.
“Why didn’t you tell Grady that you’d injured your feet?” Steele said, moving to the cupboard under the sink and drawing out a First-Aid kit.
Then he lifted her and carried her over to the sink to wash her feet.
Grady was tidying up the mess on the floor.
“Because it was fine. They don’t even hurt.”
Steele shot her a look. Right. No lying.
“Fine, they hurt a bit. But no more than my butt.”
“You got your butt spanked?” Steele asked, raising an eyebrow as he doctored her feet.
“Yeah, he spanks as hard as you do.” She pouted.
“Nan was in her head again,” Grady said. “Effie wouldn’t tell me what she was saying.”
Steele grabbed her chin, tilting her face back. “We have to get rid of that bitch.”
