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“Would you like to stay back tonight?” she asks with a flirtatious look in her kohl-rimmed eyes. Moving closer, she grazes her nose along my neck. “You can avoid the cold and snow and stay nice and toasty in my bed.”
A note of lilac wafts into my nostrils. Olivia smells as delicate as she looks but I steel myself against her advances.
“What about my brothers?” I whisper, staring back at her with a challenging look.
Her gaze swings toward Cole in the distance. He’s dressed in an identical black suit like me, looking as suave as the rest of the crowd here but the chilly aura emanating from him keeps people away.
“He’s scary,” she says, failing to hide her discomfort at the sight of him. “How did he get those awful scars?” A shudder goes through her as she looks away from him.
I glance toward Cole, taking in the thick scars that mar his handsome face. “He got captured by the enemy while trying to save me during a mission,” I explain in a grim tone. “He’s the reason I’m standing here without a scratch on me.”
Olivia’s expression doesn’t change. Her dainty nose twists as she takes another look at Cole.
A hint of disappointment stabs me.
Olivia’s not the first woman to stare at Cole with such fear and disgust.
It’s almost tragic to think of the past. He’d always been the most beautiful among us three brothers. With long silver-blonde hair and icy-blue eyes, he attracted every girl’s attention to him.
“What about Jacob?” I ask her.
She looks in the far corner where my eldest brother is immersed in a serious conversation with three elderly men.
Olivia rolls her eyes. “He’s been stuck to my grandad and his investors for the whole evening. Jacob’s handsome, I guess, but he’s so damn boring.” Sidling up beside me, she wounds her arm around mine. “I like you the best, Kai.”
A grimace forms on my lips despite her compliment.
I’m the youngest in our pack. The only reason my face and body are flawless is because my elder brothers have always been there to watch my back. Jacob has always been the one to carry the weight of the pack on his shoulders while Cole doesn’t think twice before jumping into danger to save my ass.
I could never care for a woman who looked at my brothers with such contempt.
“So, what’d you say?” Olivia says, squeezing my arm.
I unwind my arm from hers and step back. “I appreciate the offer but I must get going before the storm hits,” I say in a polite but cool tone.
Olivia frowns, her cheeks turning redder.
With a nod, I turn away and walk toward Cole.
My brother stares at me with an indifferent look as I approach him.
“Ready to go home?” I ask.
Swirling the whiskey in his glass, he pushes away from the wall. “I never wanted to come in the first place,” he says in a cold tone. “I don’t know why you guys bothered dragging me here.”
“It’s so fucking close to Christmas,” I say, forcing a happy grin on my face. “We had to get you out of the house so you’d know what season it is. Besides, aren’t you glad to be around some company that’s not me or Jacob?”
A sneer forms on his lips that deepens the scars on his face. “I hate company.” He gestures toward Olivia in the distance. “She seemed interested in you.”
I shrug. “She was kind of dull,” I lie easily. “Anyway, how about we make a start? I don’t want to get stranded on the road in the middle of a fucking blizzard.”
A spark lights up in his icy-blue eyes. Gesturing toward a valet, he thrusts his half-filled glass on the tray and walks toward Jacob.
“Hello, gentlemen,” Cole says in a deep voice.
The three men turn around to face him. Their instant reaction is one of shock but they’re quick to hide it.
“We were just finishing up our discussion on their upcoming trade show,” Jacob explains.
