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She barely contained a gasp
He said, “We’re happy to have you on board, Lily” There was a playful glint in his eyes as he added, “Don’t let Jax rattle you, all right? He slaet used to it”
Alexander turned on his heels and sauntered off toward his suite at the opposite end of the hallway
Lily stared after hiotten in over her head with this job
Because even though one e his face and the other had already disappeared behind his bedroom door, she continued to experience the aftershocks of Sterling’s taunting aze
All bad and wrong
She tried to shake off the scintillating sensations as she bypassed the sweeping grand staircase and instead took the discreetly tucked-away service elevator directly to the kitchen
The second she entered the enor hustle and bustle, Greta descended upon her No doubt anxiously awaiting Lily’s return fro to be
Greta took one look at the travesty that was Lily’s tray and exclaimed, “What the bloody hell happened!”
“Little accident” Lily skirted the slender, stylishly coiffed salt-and-pepper-haired woman and put the tray on a sidebar
Between clenched teeth, Greta said in her thick British accent, “You told me you don’t have ‘accidents’ You were a server at the famed Cliff House in San Francisco for nine years One of the reasons I recommended you for hire”
“Everyone has accidents, Greta Mine are just typically out of er open on the foil of a Merlot bottle I’ over a bowl of cla an order I don’t tend to just lose my concentration and drop a tray, because, becausefuck” She mumbled the last word
Greta’s brow crooked
Lily had already discerned that behind the very uptight appearance, Greta Hamlin had a keen and feisty wit It juh she clearly worked hard to keep it under wraps
Thus far, Lily hadn’t seen or heard her slip in front of the other staff, the very stoic, singularly focused legion of chefs, servants, housekeepers, and landscapers But for whatever reason, Greta had apparently taken a liking to the newest, youngest addition to the crew, and on occasion she let her innate sarcash