Page 225 of Tempted By her Daddies

“He’s still at work,” she said. “I’m, um, the cleaner. I mean, I took over cleaning while Evette was gone.”

Salem’s mum looked her up and down skeptically. “Do you always lie around on your employer’s sofa while you’re supposed to be working? And has this room even been cleaned? The floor looks dirty.”

“Um.” She glanced down at the floor. Actually, she had intended to do that. But before he’d left for work, Salem had made a fuss again about her not being their cleaner.

She guessed she should be grateful since she hated cleaning. But it also made her look really bad in front of his mum.

Which, surprisingly, she didn’t like.

Had he told his mum about her? Well, no, he can’t have or his mum would know who she was.

It wasn’t like they’d been together that long.

Would he be mad that she’d met his mum?

Oh hell.

“Isn’t Evette back?” his mum asked.

“She was meant to be, but she has a sore stomach.”

Salem’s mum let out a small huff. “Well, that’s too bad. Evette is an excellent cleaner.”

And she wasn’t.

She got it.

“So you can leave now,” the older woman said.

“I’m not finished for the day, though,” she protested.

“It seems that you are, considering that you were lying on the sofa rather than working. I don’t want my son spending his hard-earned money on someone who is taking advantage. So I will finish cleaning and you will go.”

Oh heck.

What did she do now? And her phone was upstairs.

“I have to go upstairs and get?—”

“No, no. You don’t need to go anywhere but out the door.” His mum moved forward, her gaze narrowing as she took in the empty bag of potato chips, along with a half-eaten block of chocolate.

Yeah, she might have found those in the cupboard and helped herself.

In her defense, she had planned on replacing them. Somehow.

Or at least she was going to hide the evidence before the guys got home.

Shit.

“You’ve been lazing around and eating their food? Do you really think that you could take advantage of them like this? Shame on you. They are good men and you are just a lazy user. Out!”

Right.

Shit.

Tamsyn rushed out of the living room, past Salem’s mum.

She didn’t know why those words hit her so hard. It wasn’t like his mum knew the truth. That she wasn’t actually taking advantage of them.

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