Page 47 of Enchanting the CEO

"Come on, everyone, you don't all have to shake hands with her. Don't overwhelm her right now. Diane, I'll introduce you to my brothers in the order of how I like them best."

Everyone laughed, me included.

“Okay, let’s hear it,” I said.

He moved to the couch, putting a hand on one of the men's shoulders. “This is Cade and his gorgeous fiancée, Meredith."

Meredith waved to me from the couch.

Then Gabe patted the shoulder of the brother sitting next to Cade. "This is Spencer, Cade's twin brother and Ben's dad." He kissed the baby's head when he mentioned Ben. "And this is Penny."

He pointed at the man sitting next to Penny. “This is Colton.”

Then he looked at the three men sitting in the chairs at the table. "And these are my half brothers, Maddox, Leo, and Nick."

That would explain the subtle difference between the two groups of men. The trio had darker hair and their eyes weren't blue, whereas the guys sitting on the couch had the exact same shade of magnetic blue as Gabe.

I smiled. "I'm pleased to meet everyone."

"By the way, you just went in chronological order for everyone except me," Colton pointed out.

"Yeah, that was lazy of you," Spencer said and then looked at me. "Which, by the way, does describe my brother pretty well."

"How do you know I didn't do it on purpose?" Gabe asked.

"Because I refuse to believe you like us less than Colton," Maddox said.

Colton grinned. "Yeah, I actually don't buy it either."

Gabe laughed. “Man, your sense of humor improved drastically since you’ve met Zoey.”

I surmised Zoey was his girlfriend.

“I agree. She’s upset that she couldn’t come today,” Colton went on. “But I promised to pass on any... gossip.”

Gabe rolled his eyes. “Let’s move on to something else. I don't actually have favorites. Diane, do you like pizza? I'm ordering in for everyone. I don't want to subject them to my cooking and make a mess of things like last week."

I smiled sheepishly, though I felt a blush. "It wasn't that bad."

"What happened last week?" Cade asked.

Gabe opened his mouth, but I started to speak before him. "He tried to cook as a thank-you that I'd cooked the night before. It didn't work out, so we ended up having dinner in the city."

I felt a shift in the room, although I couldn't explain it at all.

Spencer got up. "You cooked? You never do that. Not ever."

"No, he did once, but he almost burned down his loft, so he gave up," Cade said and then stared at me. "But he wanted to make an effort for you. Good for him."

The silence became strange somehow. Natalie and Meredith looked like they were suppressing laughter.

"Okay, you called it," Jake said as Cade gave Gabe a thumbs-up.

"Called what?" I said.

"Please ignore my family," Gabe replied.

"It's impossible," Maddox said.

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