ARIA
I was halfway through my pasta, laughing at something Kai said about his bike, when the restaurant door swung open and the rest of the brothers walked in like they owned the place.
Jasper, Reed, and Cole. All three of them.
My fork froze mid-air and my cheeks burned hot. Embarrassed didn’t even cover it.
Here I was, on what felt like my first real date with Kai, finally letting myself believe he might actually mean the sweet stuff he’d said earlier, and now his brothers had to crash it like some bad joke.
I turned to Kai, voice low and sharp. “Did you invite all of them? Seriously? I thought this was supposed to be just us.”
Kai’s eyes went wide, then narrowed at his brothers. Before he could answer, Jasper slid into the booth across from us, smirking like he’d won something.
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