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I’m licking my lips like a hungry wolf when I turn back to face her.
“What?” she asks after a long moment of silence.
“You called my name,” I remind her, earning a misplaced frown. “Get distracted by your little project?”
For emphasis, I point at the clipboard she’s hugging to her chest as if she has to protect company secrets.
Her eyes narrow. “Job.”
“What?”
I don’t know if my thoughts and my reality are tangling together, but this woman isn’t making any sense.
“It’s a job. It’s not aproject.” She says the last word in a tone that tells me she isn’t impressed at all with my mistake. “And it’s separate from watching the boys. I know I took a lot on at one time, but I can manage both things.”
I hold my hands up in surrender. “Sorry.”
I don’t say anything else because I’m afraid it will only be met with hostility.
Her upper lip twitches in irritation.
“I’m going to work now,” I say and turn back toward the door in an effort to make my escape.
“Chase.”
I blow out a long breath before turning around to face her.
“I used up the last of the apples at lunch for the boys. Can you grab some more on the way home?”
“Anything else?”
She shakes her head before walking away.
She calls out to me for a third time before I can even lift my hand to the doorknob.
“Yes, dear,” I tease as I face her once again.
She points to the clipboard in her opposite hand. “This is a job.”
“I know,” I quickly agree. I don’t need another outburst. The last one was reminiscent of the one she gave me in the car on the way to the airport last week.
“I’m going to bill you for my time.”
“Okay.”
“Separately from what you pay me to watch the boys.”
“Okay.”
Without another word, she spins around and walks off, her bare feet slapping on the marble.
Chapter 16
Madison
It’s been a weird two weeks, and even weirder since the altercation over working on the house the other day.
Okay, it’s been weird since I took it upon myself to press my lips to his without warning.
