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“Effie? You getting changed? You need some help?” Steele asked.
“Yes!”
“Yes, you need some help?”
“No!” she cried out. Then the door opened and she glared up at Steele. “I’m getting dressed. I don’t need help.”
She slammed the door in his face. Something Steele wasn’t used to. The other man turned and winked at Grady. “And that’s how we get to the real Effie.”
“By annoying her until she starts getting sassy?”
“Nothing wrong with throwing a bit of sass. Means she feels safe to do so. And if she throws too much sass at us or she’s not doing what she’s told when it comes to the important stuff, well, that’s just a reason to tan her hide, isn’t it?”
Hmm, the idea of turning Effie over his knee . . . of pulling up the T-shirt she was wearing and pulling down her pants and panties before spanking that round, heart-shaped ass. Yeah, he could actually totally get behind that.
Especially if she started getting too sassy for her own good.
She could give them some lip. But she wasn’t allowed to put herself at risk. Or speak badly about herself. Or lie.
“By not leaving her alone with her own thoughts for too long. We can’t let her get into her head. Nothing good comes from that.”
All right. Grady could agree with that.
* * *
Steele didup the last buttons on her coat.
“Do you really think this is necessary?” she asked.
She could barely move.
“Got to keep you warm.”
“We’re going out for lunch. I’m going to walk from the apartment to your car. Then from the car to the place where we’re eating. I’m not going out to traipse across Antarctica.”
“You’re going to wear the jacket and you’re going to stop throwing sass at me.”
“I am not throwing sass at you,” she replied indignantly. “I’m just telling you that dying via suffocation because I have too many clothes on is not the way I want to go.”
“Definitely getting sassy.” He was grinning as he said this, which seemed in exact opposition to his words and the gruffness of his voice.
So she couldn’t tell if he thought that was a good thing or not.
She was so confused by these guys. They were supposed to be her bosses.
But that wasn’t the vibe they were giving her.
Steele was upset about the state of her apartment and overly concerned about how much clothing she wore. While Grady just watched her with an attentiveness that was both worrying and thrilling.
So confusing.
“Noted. If you start suffocating, I’ll give you mouth-to-mouth.”
She sucked in a breath.
Joking. He was joking.
Or was he?
