While I knew he was kidding, I felt responsible for Pinky leaving. "Need some help?" Bring that bag of fertilizer up here," he said. He was working on...the highest tier of the bed. I picked up the bag and delivered it to him. And that's how I got my job as assistant gardener. He gave the orders and I did everything he told me to do. Soon we had the highest tier planted and began working on the second tier. Tulips and daffodils were already in bloom around the lowest tier. We stood back and. Instead she asked, "Are you going to try?" Try what?"He was standing so close and yet it seemed like he was miles away from her. "Are you going to try and persuade me?" she explained patiently while hot, flaring anger was boiling inside her."If you don't know already I'm not sure I can convince you."She got up and met his cold gaze. "Why should I stay? Give me one good reason." I'll give you two," he replied. "Maddy and Hannah." What about you?" she couldn't help but ask."What about me. “On work days that means you will come straight home after work unless there is a very good reason not to do so but if there is a good reason you can stay out later but each time I will add a non work day to your punishment.” I scrunched my face as I knew I had works drinks on the second and third nights of my grounding so that meant both days next weekend and I had plans for then which I would have to cancel. Jaden wasn’t finished. “If going to work you can choose the clothes wear. At all. There had been a slight change in our complex relationship, I started finding them both in bed with me sleeping. There was no sex when that happened although hands did wander freely. I wasn’t surprised when one would leave for the front room and the other would get serious. Then they would usually swap places but we always woke up three at a time. I was only sad that it wasn’t going to be forever. They never said how long they could stay. Olive said they might be back next spring. But she.