She glanced at Aleki, he looked partly amused and partly turned-on. Really? Didn’t seem like she was getting any help there.
“But Wolfie, what if I took the vitamin now and promised not to walk on my foot for the rest of the afternoon?” She batted her eyelids for good measure.
“You’re now calling him Wolfie? That’s my name for him,” Aleki protested.
“I stole it,” she said, unapologetically. After all, he was siding with Wolfe against her.
“You can’t use it anymore,” Wolfe told him with a great deal of satisfaction.
“Why can’t I use it anymore?”
“Because it’s her special name for me. It’s what her Little likes to call me.”
Aleki studied her, a strangely intense look on his face. “Her Little, huh?”
“She seems to slip out more and more lately. Is that all right?” she asked.
“Of course it is,” Wolfe said. “Enough procrastination.” Wolfe pointed at her. “You’re getting your butt spanked.”
“Nooo,” she groaned. He wasn’t really going to, right? They’d talked about it a lot but that was just talk. Wasn’t it?
They weren’t really going to spank her.
Wolfe lifted her off the counter and carried her to a chair around the big dining table. Where was Caleb? Surely, he’d save her.
Maybe she was playing them off against one another. That probably wasn’t a good thing in this sort of relationship. But how was she to know? She hadn’t been in a healthy relationship since she’d broken up with Aleki. And now she was in a relationship with three men. Three very different men.
But then Wolfe drew out a chair and sat her on it. She relaxed slightly. Maybe he was just all talk and no action. Maybe they all were.
For some reason, that didn’t make her feel any better.
Crouching, he grabbed her sore foot gently, examining it. “It’s swollen.”
“It was always slightly swollen.”
“It’s more swollen than it was before.”
Shoot. He might be right.
“If you don’t take care of it, then your recovery is going to slow down,” he scolded.
She knew this. And now she was starting to feel like an idiot.
“Sorry,” she whispered. “I was just playing around.”
“And you didn’t want to take your vitamin,” Aleki added.
She sighed. “They’re horrible. They’re huge and they taste awful.”
“All right, I’ll order some suppository ones instead. They’re probably better for you anyway,” Wolfe said. “Apparently they absorb better.”
“What?” she squeaked. “No! Fine. I’ll take the damn horse pills.”
Wolfe eyed her. “Without argument.”
Damn man had managed to corner her nicely. “Without argument.”
Wolfe grabbed the bottle of vitamins from his pocket and opened them while Aleki filled a glass of water. She took the pill and swallowed it wi