"I'll go and get Aideen so we can leave-"
"Out of curiosity, what did you want an escort for?"
"I'd rather not say, it's embarrassin'."
"You didn't want me to take your virginity, did you?"
I snapped my head up and hurt my neck a little doing so. "What? No, that is not what I came here for!" I angrily snapped.
I felt heat spread across my chest and up my neck then onto my face. "First your brother thinks I am pregnant by you and now you think I am virgin? I'm not pregnant and I'm not a damn virgin!"
Alec raised his eyebrows and looked a little shocked. I ignored him and his expression, as I turned my body then shouted, "Aideen! Move it, we're leavin'!"
I felt a rush of air touch my skin seconds before a body molded into my back and arms came around my waist. "Now wait just as second, kitten. I jumped to conclusions, but so did you. Give me a break here - I'm not being a dick, I'm just trying to understand what you would need an escort for."
I opened my mouth to snap off a snarky reply, but nothing came to me because Alec was right. I relaxed a little and he must have felt it becuase he moved back away from me, giving me back my space.
I was about to reply to Alec when I heard movement and mumbling in the room behind the doors across from me. Without a second thought I walked to the double doors and opened them. Three large males fell forward taking me to the ground with them.
A mountain of muscle was crushing me, most would say this was the ideal way to die, but not me!
"Can't breathe," I wheezed from under the bodies.
"Get off her!" I heard Alec bellow.
Courses of the word 'sorry' were offered as I was dug free from the mountain of muscle and helped to my feet. I took in a few deep breaths and groaned in delighted as oxygen filled my lungs.
"Fuck, that hurt me chest."
"Do you think something might be broken?" Alec asked as he appeared in front of me, placing his hands on my bare shoulders.
I shook my head and took a few more breaths. "No, I'm fine. I just couldn't breathe, and it burned."
Alec looked to his right and said, "You almost smothered a woman."
"Sorry," three voices said in unison.
I got control of my breathing then looked to my left and saw a frowning Ryder and Kane as well a frowning younger man who looked similar to Alec.
"Which brother are you?" I asked him.
"Nico," he replied at the same time all three of his brothers said, "Dominic."
I looked to the lad and asked, "What am I callin' you, Nico or Dominic?"
He shrugged and grinned at me. "You can call me whatever you want, gorgeous."
I raised my eyebrows at him and couldn't help but smile a little, his forwardness and the way he held himself was kind of charming. I observed him with my eyes which he fully appreciated, judging by his smile which revealed dimples that matched Alec's.
"I'll call you Nico," I replied, smiling wide myself now.
I settled on Nico since that was the name he said when I asked his name. His name was obviously Dominic, but if he wanted to be called Nico, I would call him Nico.
"And you are?" Nico asked, keeping eye contact with me.
"Keela," I said and blushed.
His stare was very intense and I couldn't help but flush under it.
"Kee-lah," Nico purred. "Beautiful name for a beautiful girl."
Alec used his hands, which were still on my shoulders, to push me behind him as he stepped forward towards his younger brother.
"Boy, cut that shit out or I'm knocking your ass out," Alec snarled to Nico.
I looked around Alec's body and watched as Nico, Kane, and Ryder all dropped their jaws and gaped at Alec. I furrowed my eyebrows, why did they look so shocked? Did brothers not threaten physical beatings to each other over random things all the time?
"Are you okay?" I asked them.
Nico was the first brother to compose himself, before the other two quickly followed suit.
"We're fine," Ryder assured me.
I stepped to Alec's side and curtly nodded to Ryder which he frowned at. "I really am sorry for what I said to you earlier Keela. It was a dick move just to assume something like that. Forgive me?"
I gave him a genuine smile and nodded my head because he looked a little distressed that I was still upset with him, and it just confirmed that he was a good man if a stranger could do that to him.
"Where you all listenin' to the conversation I had with Alec?" I asked the brothers.
One by one they hung their heads in shame and nodded. I found the sight hilarious, but I didn't laugh. They were huge men but they were acting like a bunch of little lads who were caught with their hands in the cookie jar before dinner.
"Great, now I'm even more embarrassed," I muttered.
"What do you need an escort for? Don't you have a boyfriend?" Kane suddenly asked me.
My stomach fell out of my arse when he asked that question because I forgot all about pretending that Storm was my boyfriend.
"Oh Jesus," I groaned and covered my face with my hands.
"Yeah, what was his name again? Thunder?" Alec sarcastically asked making Kane snicker.
I uncovered my face and looked at Alec with my eyes narrowed. "Storm."
"Ah yes, Storm. Why can't Storm escort you?" he asked, a grin tugging at his lips.
He was such a dickhead, he knew I didn't have a boyfriend.
"Because I don't have a boyfriend. I only said that Storm was me boyfriend last night to stop you from chattin' me up because I didn't want to have sex with you. I still don't want to have sex with you. I just need your help, but you said you can't help me so I'll be goin' now. Aideen!"
Aideen suddenly appeared walking down the hallway that I think led from the kitchen, she had a bottle of Bulmers in her hand and a smile on her face.
I pinched the bridge of my nose and shook my head at her.
"Really? It's not even the afternoon and you're drinkin?"
Aideen shrugged her shoulders. "It's hot outside. The heat does things to Irish people, it forces us to drink!"
I gave her a 'really' look which made her smile and take a sip from her bottle.
"Whatever. Keep the bottle, we're leavin' now. Alec won't help me."
Aideen frowned as her shoulders slumped. "Dammit, who the hell can we get to be your date to that weddin' now?"
"Whose weddin'?" Nico asked Aideen.
I gently shook my head at Aideen and gave her the don't-say-a-word look. Any other female around the globe would know that look and not say a word, but not Aideen, she had too big of a mouth to keep anything to herself.
"Keela's cousin, Micah, is gettin' married to her dickhead of a fella next week. Jason, Micah's fiancé, fucked Keela over a few months ago. Since she has to attend the weddin', we wanted someone to go with her that would show Jason she can do miles better than him. I thought Alec was the man for the job, but apparently I was wrong."
I put my face back in my hands when Aideen finished speaking and wished the ground would open up and swallow me whole.
"Wait, you're related to Micah Daley?" Nico asked me.
I uncovered my face and found he was looking at me with wide eyes as he awaited my answer. "Yeah, Micah is me cousin. Do you know her?"
"Unfortunately, I do. She was in my homeroom in the final year of high school."
I nodded my head in understanding.
Nico looked closely at me then and studied me with his eyes squinted. "She was a brunette in school, but I've seen her around town and she has red hair now. You look similar to her."
I shrugged. "Her hair is dyed red, mine is naturally this colour. I'm not like her at all, she is a bitch of epic proportions."
Nico grinned. "You don't need to convince me she is a bitch, I believe you."
I chuckled.
"What did Jason do to fuck you over?" Ryder questioned me when I looked at him.
I sighed and rubbed my neck awkwardly, embarrassed that I was revealing this information to very hot strangers.