“Thank you. Making a good impression wasimportant.” They both leaned in expectantly, almost holding their breath. “Andyes, I will talk to the owner about your applications and pay half the fee.”
Getting them to behave wasn’t always theeasiest endeavor, so I’d upped the ante for that job. “But if you screw up,doing something stupid on your personal time and cost us more business withthem, you will regret it.”
The little demons shivered.
“Stop that.” Giving them another stern lookdidn’t help.
The damned troublemakers needed a keeper.Thankfully, that wasn’t me. They’d flirted like crazy the first day I’d hiredthem, and still did whenever they wanted something, but when I’d spelled outthat I had a thing for more mature omegas, they’d backed off.
In the six months they’d been working forme, they’d become family. Just the weird kind that you rolled your eyes at andhid from occasionally.
Naughty giggles filled the kitchen and Sethwiggled excitedly. As the coffee finished, I reached for a mug as Seth stoppedlaughing. “If we behave, will you talk to them today?”
I rolled my eyes as I filled my cup. “Firstof all, I don’t think that Shane guy I spoke with is the actual owner, andsecond, you’re not twenty-one yet, so I don’t know how much it will help.”
When they both pouted dramatically, I heldup one hand. “But from what my friend said, he’s involved with the ownershipsomehow. We’re having dinner later this week, so I’ll let you know what happensafter that.”
I got matching wicked grins, but Aricouldn’t hold back a teasing reply. “So just dinner, huh? With the guy who youhad to help so much you skipped out on a job?”
They glanced back and forth betweenthemselves as I sipped my coffee.
Seth spoke up this time. “You realize younever take a break on a job, right? No coffee breaks. No sneaking cookies. Nosex on the job and no flirting if it’s distracting.”
Hearing him list off the rules that way hadme trying not to laugh. The fact that those were what he considered thecardinal sins was cute…and a bit weird, honestly. He’d put cookies and sex onthe same naughty list.
“I hadn’t seen him in a couple of years. Hepulled away from most of his friends after Matthew died. But he’s happier nowand seems to be in a better place. When we get together, I’ll talk to him.”
The rules on the hidden page of the sitelisted being over twenty-one, but there was no specific reason for it. Thinkingit probably had something to do with the alcohol that was being served, Iwasn’t sure what could be done.
The troublemakers knew that too, but itdidn’t stop the giggling and excited wiggles as they bounced across the room. Ihad just enough time to set my coffee down before they attacked and hugged metight. At one point, before I’d met Wade, I could’ve been tempted by the littledevils, but now they were family.
Just a dirty sort of family that talkedabout sex and flirted.
But considering what these two were lookingfor, that probably wasn’t a bad description.
“No more. You’re over here to work on thequiches for the garden party later.” The older couple screamed lechers but notin a consensual BDSM kind of way, so I was planning on keeping an eye on thetrouble twins.
“And what did I say about the party later?”I gave them both stern stares as they stepped back.
“No outrageous flirting and don’t goanywhere alone.” Seth’s expression said he was taking my rules seriously thistime. “We believe you. We’ll behave.”
“I don’t know anything about these twospecifically. But there’s something about them. I almost turned them downseveral times, but I didn’t have a good reason.” I was probably overreacting,but sometimes people just hit me wrong.
“We know. We talked about it.” Ari’s wordswere literal, not just bullshitting. We talked through any jobs I thought werequestionable. But the boys were set on being able to make a career out ofcatering, so they’d said we should take the job.
I was an overbearing ass sometimes, but Ijust didn’t have a good reason to override their vote this time. “Just becareful. If they’re up to something, it won’t be like the club where everyoneknows to follow the rules and there’s someone there to watch over you.”
I was being serious, but they let out dirtygiggles.
Seth gave an exaggerated shiver. “We likedbeing watched.”
“That is not a surprise.” Rolling my eyesas they giggled even more, I pointed to the counter. “Get going. I’m going tohead upstairs and grab a shower, so you two need to stay focused or I won’t letyou cook on your own again for a month.”
They might like being watched when theywere doing sexy things, but my hovering over them when they were following arecipe made them nuts. They’d dealt with it reasonably at first, but now itseemed to be about trusting them, so I was doing my best to give them moreautonomy.
It wasn’t how I’d always pictured running acatering company, but when my first hires were dirty twins with a thing fordating the same alpha, I knew I should just count my blessings it wasn’tweirder around here.
“Got it.” Ari straightened and smiled. “They’regoing to turn out awesome.”