Gilda deflated. He was one of the team leaders she had known and respected. While she may have joked on occasion that his mild demeanor and the lack of flaunting of his position made him only slightly superior to her, it was just all in good fun. And now, he was deferring to her. It finally clinched it; the whole situation was real and there was no escaping from it. “Don’t call me that,” she muttered, defeated.