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“Is all of that for her?” Jameson asked.
“Maggie. My name is Maggie.” What a dork. Why hadn’t she introduced herself already?
“Nice to meet you, Maggie.” Jameson held out his hand and she gave hers to him. He smiled and pulled it up to kiss it.
Smack! Ian whacked him on the back of the head with his elbow.
“Hey! What was that for?” Jameson asked.
“Accident. Sorry.” Ian placed the bowl on the table. He didn’t sound all that sorry, plus she wasn’t so sure that it had been an accident.
Jameson sighed and started washing her foot. Whoa. Who knew that having your foot touched could be so pleasurable?
“Eat,” Ian commanded.
Did he always have to bark at her? Couldn’t he see that she and Jameson were having a moment?
“I’m fine.”
“You need to eat. You haven’t eaten all day,” Ian told her.
“Is there something wrong with my food?” Jack asked from where he now sat on the island. “Promise it’s not poisoned.”
“Of course I don’t think it’s poisoned. I’m just not hungry anymore.”
“Your stomach is still growling,” Ian pointed out. “You are going to eat.”
“Who died and made you the boss?” she asked.
“No one needed to die to make me the boss. I’m your bodyguard, which makes me your guardian. Which means you do as I say. Now, eat.”
Her mouth opened. Closed.
There were no words. None. Which was frankly alarming since she’d always been quite good with words.
“Beck and Hux are my guards.”
Something filled Ian’s face and it took her a moment to recognize that look. He looked happy.
Weird.
“Beck and Hux have been pulled away to other duties,” Jack said.
“What? Why?”
“They’re needed elsewhere, so now we’re here,” Ian told her. “Which means I am the boss of you and you will eat.”
She frowned. “I don’t think so. Beck never forced me to eat.”
“Well, perhaps he should have paid more attention to you. And then you wouldn’t be sitting here, pale, exhausted, and bleeding.” Ian frowned.
“Such a drama queen,” she muttered.
“What was that?”
Yeah. Maggie wasn’t repeating that. She wasn’t dumb.
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