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Chloe-doe, let’s get you finished, here.”
    Chloe snorted. “I think Grant just took care of that little thing.”
    Andrew laughed and hugged her tight. Grant reached over her shoulder and picked up a bottle.
    “Conditioner. You have to have conditioner on your hair. I only have one sister, but I know all about the importance of conditioner.” He followed his words by pouring some onto his hand and then working it into her hair.
    She felt Andrew move and then the overhead waterfall tapered. They were still being showered upon by the other four faucets.
    “Damn straight we know about conditioner,” Andrew said. “The way that little hellcat reacted when we pranked her, yeah, that’s something I won’t ever forget, either.”
    Chloe had met their sister, Rebecca, and she didn’t know that “hellcat” was a name she’d have affixed to the petite, nearly waiflike woman.
    “Um, so what did y’all do to her, anyway?”
    She had her eyes closed, but she could almost feel them looking at each other, trying to decide which one of them was going to “come clean.”
    The unintentional thought-pun nearly made her snicker. It took all she had to keep from laughing. It wouldn’t do to let these two know just how easily they could charm her.
    “Well, I was only sixteen at the time, you have to understand,” Grant said. “Becca, she was thirteen and always in the bathroom doing one thing or another. For long fucking hours on end.”
    “She was kind of vain at that age,” Andrew said.
    “I’m getting a lot of qualification before you give me the actual answer. That’s never a good sign. Gentlemen, pay attention here. What. Did. You. Do?”
    Grant sighed. “I covered my eyes, snuck into the bathroom while she was showering, and stole her conditioner. She was washing her hair—we wouldn’t have deprived her of being clean, for God’s sake. We just figured the conditioner was—you know—prissy and fussy and completely unnecessary. After all, we didn’t use conditioner.”
    Chloe knew she shouldn’t have laughed, but the aggrieved sound of Grant’s confession just made the entire episode seem silly.
    Behind her, Andrew tugged her hair lightly. When she tilted her head back, she felt him begin to rinse her hair using the shower wand. “Not only did she tear a strip off us, but Mom grounded us for a whole damn month! Over fucking conditioner!”
    Chloe found herself in the bizarre position of biting the inside of her mouth to keep her amusement hidden. Andrew was exquisitely careful in rinsing her hair and had sounded sublimely irked at what he obviously still believed was a great injustice done to him and his brother.
    When she straightened again, Grant had lathered his hands and began to run those hands over the front of her body.
    Chloe was going to have the cleanest breasts in all of creation.
    Although his attention was fixed on his work, the conversation clearly had his attention, too. “Can you believe mom grounded us, even though we immediately handed the damn stuff back to the little brat? I suggested that Becca just go and use it but no , she insisted she’d have to wash her hair again and she couldn’t do that for two whole days because of something called pH balance.”
    The look on his face was so reminiscent of teenage-boy disgust that Chloe laughed. “Oh, dear. I’m sorry, but I can feel sorry for both you and Rebecca.” She could just imagine the furor that their little prank had caused, and that it remained a bone of contention between the siblings for years to come after the deed was done.
    “Yeah. So you can be sure we’ll never make that mistake again,” Andrew said.
    “I’m glad to hear that you’ll respect my prissy grooming products,” she said. “Being an esthetician, they’re kind of important to me.”
    “We wouldn’t do anything like that to you .” Andrew sounded very sincere.
    “Of course not,” Grant said. “You’re our woman.”
    “Mmhmm, and Rebecca was you