And Then There Were Four novel Chapter 4

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I came to dinner, but part of me realized that I was widely under-dressed for the most part. It wasn’t something super fancy, but it wasn’t a jeans and t-shirt thing either.

I could see the disgust in Allison’s eyes as I stepped into the dinning room wearing black leggings, and an oversized band t-shirt. Her lip turned up into a look of disgust before rolling her eyes, and turning away headed for her seat.

“You can sit in the last chair there.” Allison stated, clearly pointing to a chair at the end of the table. One that happens to be right next to a tall brooding man with rippling muscles and a perfectly styled beard.

I couldn’t help but feel hesitant as his eyes looked up to mind, and a smirk crossed his lips. “You must be the famous, Ivy.”

Famous... I wouldn’t say that, well at least not yet. “Uh– yeah. That’s me.”

Moving to my seat, I quickly sat down and watched as servants brought out serving dish after serving dish of food. My eyes widening at the amounts before I was distracted by three other massive bodies entering the dining room.

Damian, James, and another man I had not met entered in all their godliness and took a seat at the table. How was it that one woman had all four of these sexy sinful men.

God, stop gawking at them! I scolded myself inwardly as I shook my head and focused on the glass of water in front of me as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.

“Hale, you already met Ivy, I see.” Looking towards Damian, I saw the glare on his face. He still wasn’t happy with me being here, and I wasn’t sure why.

The man who spoke to me before turned to Damian and smiled, “yeah I did. Not much of a talker though.”

“Consider that a good thing.” Damian retorted, taking his seat.

As another body sat next to mine across from Hale, I noticed that he and Hale looked almost alike. Doing a double take, I made the mental realization that I was sitting next to two absolutely delicious looking twins.

I slowly let my hand slid under the table, pinching myself to see if I was going to wake up from another one of my erotic dreams. The pain shooting through me made me realize that I, in fact, was actually awake.

“You okay?” The newcomer asked, giving me a perplexed stare.

My eyes widened as a smile crossed my face, “yep…yep. I’m good. Nothing wrong here.”

Hale began to laugh as he shook his head with a smile looking to the man across from him, “Talon, I think she is shocked we look alike.”

“Well, unfortunately we are twins.” The annoyed man stated openly, causing Hale to chuckle. “And I am the normal one.”

“Don’t let him intimidate you. That’s Talon. He is a giant teddy bear really.” Hale said, clearly rolling his eyes at Talon who shrugged his shoulders and scoffed.

“For some reason, I find that hard to believe.” I mumbled taking a sip of my drink again as I watched my father finally enter the room, and take a seat at the head of the table.

The conversation quickly fell into work, and other political aspects as we dug into the food. With having little interest in those kinds of things, I fell into my own thoughts, and tuned out everything they were talking about. I had no interest in getting to honestly know any of them personally, and therefore had no reason to hold a conversation.

“What do you think, Ivy?”

The question pulled me out of my internal thoughts, and my eyes looked at them in shock, knowing I was caught not paying attention. “Huh?”

“She isn't’ even paying attention. I don’t know why you’re asking her opinion.” Damian snapped quickly at James, causing my father to give Damian a disapproving look.

“She is part of the family, Damian.”

“Right.” Damian said with a sigh of disapproval while glaring at me.

“I asked what it was you thought about adding a gaming center on the property for the kids that lived here.” My father asked again, and I found it odd that he would want to do something like that.

“How many kids live here?” I questioned, my lack of understanding not making me able to give a proper response.

“Well on the land we own, about 42 of various ages.”

I was shocked that many people would possibly be living on my father’s property. I didn’t see how that was possible. How much land did they actually own?