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“Nope. I’ll have the steak, baked potato, vegetables. Grady will have the seafood risotto. And Effie will also have the steak with a baked potato and salad.”
“No salad!” she said quickly. “It’s an S word. And I want mashed potatoes. Thanks.”
Lee nodded and took away the menus.
“Well, that wasn’t that hard to decide, was it?” She smiled widely at them both.
Yep. She really was nuts.
* * *
Effie grew slightlynervous as they drew closer to her apartment. She knew the polite thing to do would be to offer them a drink.
But the only drinks she had were pop, hot chocolate, and coffee. Men like this probably drank fancy things. Like Scotch.
She might have some peach schnapps somewhere. But that would be the best she could do.
And anyway, it didn’t matter what she had to drink because the main reason she didn’t want to invite them in was because of her apartment.
And Brooks. She wasn’t ready to introduce him to her new bosses.
Because, yep, she’d signed the contract. As soon as she’d seen what they were paying, she knew there was no way she could ever turn them down.
It didn’t matter much to her what she had to do. She would be making nearly three times as much as she had been at her old job. Which might mean she could get into a nicer rental in a better part of town.
Maybe a two-bedroom place. That would be amazing.
She could see how their life was going to improve.
“Effie? Effie?”
She snapped back to attention as Grady spoke to her. Of course, she had to focus and pay attention in order to keep her job. But she was going to do this. She was going to be the best assistant that she could be.
Maybe she should bring cookies. That seemed like something the most amazing assistant in the world would do.
Right?
“Effie?” Grady repeated.
“Sorry?”
“Are you all right?” he asked.
“Yes, sorry. I’m just a bit tired. What is it?”
“We’re here.”
“Oh.” Now, she felt like a complete idiot. “Wait, where’s Steele?”
“I got sick of him so I left him behind at the restaurant.”
“What? No, you didn’t. He was in here with us.”
Wasn’t he?
“That was a joke, sweetheart,” he said gently.
She covered her face with a groan. “I’m such a doofus.”
