“She’ll get over it.”
Would she?
Elizabeth wasn’t sure.
“She’s pissed over Duke being here, and choosing to be near his mother, and me. I know it. She’s going to blow. It’s only a matter of time before the woman I know she can be shows up to the party, and that’s when it gets spicy.”
Ethan hoped not, but he trusted his wife’s gut.
“Do you think she’ll give Duke an ultimatum?” he asked. “Because that’s shitty.”
Oh, she was aware.
In a marriage, if that shit started, it went downhill, and fast. The bottom line was that there was tension there to begin with. Duke wasn’t a fan of Archangels up his ass. He wasn’t a fan of his wife being the boss, either. That tended to grind a man’s gears. He’d done that with Salem once, too, and the job had come first.
If Axelle pulled that card, there was no doubt Duke would be done.
She knew her brother.
“Duke loves her, but if she does, it’s going to be a bloodbath. He’s a LaRue. Whenever someone gave me or Charlie an ultimatum, weIMMEDIATELYdid the opposite.”
Oh, he wasn’t shocked.
“I’m going to reach out to a spider. Maybe he can go make sure she’s okay,” Elizabeth stated. “She might just need to vent. She’s not going to talk to me,” she added. “Not after this. She and Lewis are close friends, or they used to be. He might have more luck.”
Ethan hugged her.
“You did the right thing. Your team is your team, and she shouldn’t be berating people who are salary about when they show up for work. That’s going to get her in trouble with HR. They could have gone there instead, and that would have gone in her file.”
She was aware.
“When Noah is complaining, and Johanna…?”
He understood.
They were the two most laid back on the team. TheyNEVERcomplained about anything. The reason they had the closure rate they did was because Elizabeth let them run it how they saw fit.
They never let her down.
Now, she was backing them up.
Hopefully, Axelle would calm down, or Duke would fly home this weekend, they’d have some sex, and everyone would get over it.
“Can you get Callen and Chris? I’m going to call Lewis and see what he’s up to,” she admitted. “I’ll see if he can sit down next to Little Miss Muffet…”
He nodded.
“See you at the car?” he asked.
She nodded.
“Yes, my love.”
That worked for him.
“I’ll have Security pack a bag just in case,” she admitted. “We’re not that far away, but if we get busy, we’ll grab a hotel room.”
He understood that.
