Tora reassured her.
“I could never be married to him. He’s annoying. When he puts his feet on my coffee table, I want to break them off and toss them out the door. He’s got the manners of a brick.”
Mac snorted.
“Me? I’m the problem? Listen, let me tell you about my partner, and her craziness. She alphabetizes her health and beauty products. I needed a razor, and it was between the Q-tips and Salicylic Acid. It’s weird and annoying. I can learn manners. You’re not unlearning crazy.”
Callen was amused.
“Oh, what’s that like?” he asked.
Elizabeth didn’t even look at him, but she did address his audacity.
“I don’t know, Callen. Maybe it’s going to be like their shared sex lives between you and I. Nonexistent.”
Well, that worked effectively.
He shut up.
FAST.
Everyone else was amused by that.
“I just needed to know. You’re sharing food, and seem comfortable with each other. Curiosity killed the boss,” she stated. “But I have to know. I assign teams. If it works, I don’t like breaking it apart.”
Tora understood.
Honestly, she didn’t mind her asking.
“We are just accustomed to working together. We will be at the FBI, right?”
Elizabeth wanted to sigh. That had been the plan, but shit came up. Look at the predicament she was in now.
“More than likely, unless something comes up. I try to accommodate, but sometimes, there’s issues,” she said, glancing over at Alex, who was eating his food.
Damn.
She hated being the boss for this reason.
Already, she knew it was going to go to shit. She’d known the man over a decade with him working for her.
To refocus them, she went there.
“Oh, but you haven’t proved that you belong on the team, yet,” she admitted. “You still have to do that.”
Tora smiled.
“Well, we’re working on that. We’re still running the list of recent burials, to see if we can find anything, and on top of that, we are digging into who owned the building before it was bought by Devon Slater’s father last year.”
Okay, that worked for her.
That took thinking and initiative. A person needed that on her team.
She was a little impressed that they went there without her telling them to. Clearly, they could work alone.
“Thinking outside the box. Nice. What did you find?” she asked, happy they took the initiative.
Mac shared.
