It wasn’t until the following morning, while checking in with her partner, that it hit her Gage had ordered her dinner for her. As soon as it did, she wanted to run out of her room and make it perfectly clear that she didn’t appreciate his chauvinistic display of caveman behavior. She was perfectly capable of ordering her own food and making any other decisions in her life that needed making.
After hanging up the phone, she stood and marched to the door to do just that. By the time she reached the bottom of the stairs, she was poised to attack, ready to put him in his place and make him wish he’d never met her. He wasn’t in the kitchen or anywhere else she could see, so she stalked to the basement stairs ready to do battle. The lights were out, and she started to lose steam when she could
