Their gaze instantly starts on me and remains on me until I realize I do need the bathroom, because I may just wet myself right now. It’s as if within seconds, they scanned the kitchen, cataloged their family members, and realized there’s a stranger in their midst.
Fuck.
I’ve swallowed my tongue in the process, as well. In person, they’re even more intimidating, more stunningly handsome, more sexy, more powerful, more beautiful, and more everything.
They could snap my neck right now and keep it on ice on a platter while they finished the feast their family prepared for them.
Tina does a bang-up job of throwing me under the bus.
“Now,” she starts. “First, look at your beautiful girlfriend’s face and forgive us for dropping in on your sacred time with Uncle Louie. But we missed you guys and had to see you. So we thought we’d bring dinner to you. Madisyn, please tell them not to be too mad at us.”
For a split second, silence strangles the air out of the kitchen. I calculate how long it would take me to bolt for the door. Again, I’d rather face the snowstorm outside than be on fire with them here in their kitchen.
They’re going to demand to know who I am.
Or snap my neck, no questions asked.
Chapter Five
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Madisyn
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What happens in a secondfeels like centuries in my mind. How am I going to spin this situation?
“How can we be mad looking at our girlfriend’s beautiful face?” Kaiser Martin says, ripping the earth from under my feet. Wait, what?
I choke. Let me rephrase. I choke like I’ve tried to ram the very large potato I was peeling down my throat.
“Whew. Also, I should be mad at you for keeping Madisyn all to yourself. If we hadn’t crashed your cabin getaway, we would never have known she existed,” Tina scolds.
“Yes, and we wonder why,” Ren says drily, his gaze on me while he earns himself a good-natured swat with her kitchen towel.
“Oh, hush,” Tina says, closing the gap between them and throwing her arms around each one of them as she hugs and kisses them affectionately.They then greet the rest of their family, and it’s not a secret how much they’re loved and love in return.